That's a pretty sweet poem! You know what I like about Byron? - and a couple of those other dudes too, I suppose, but Byron's the ace at it - he's able to sound poetic and hoity-toity at the same time, and make it perfectly natural.
A lot of the time in these latter days, you get people trying to be "poetic" and they emulate that style, and it just sounds forced. Even a lot of Byron's contemporaries, they didn't have that natural knack, as to the manner born. Byron was the real deal.
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Aw man, you cut out prior to the applause!
/claps
You know Byron's poem Darkness, right? Google it if you don't, it's on just that theme you mentioned in the post below.
A lot of the time in these latter days, you get people trying to be "poetic" and they emulate that style, and it just sounds forced. Even a lot of Byron's contemporaries, they didn't have that natural knack, as to the manner born. Byron was the real deal.
That Percy Bysshe Shelley's another one.