Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero

Part I of Essay
In Byron's poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" the main character is portrayed as a dark brooding man, who doesn't like society and wants to escape from the world because of his discontent with it. Through the poem we see the strong resemblance the Byronic hero has to man ....

Part II of Essay
.... other hand invents himself a new identity that differs in every way from the preset mold into which he was born. In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and upset with the society around him. ÒThen loathed he in his native land to dwell, which seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.Ó Childe Harold is extremely miserable with the societyin which he is forced to live. He feels so isolated that he compares his life to that of a hermit's. Stanza ten reads ÒIf he had friends, he bade adieu to none.Ó T ....