"And from his native land resolv'd to go, / And visit scorching climes beyond the sea;

With pleasures drugg'd he almost long'd for woe / And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below."



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This quote is from Byron's Childe Harold. Look out for the "Byronic hero" in the IDs, archaisms borrowed from Spenser, and Spenserian stanzas (eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine [twelve syllable iambic line], and has rhyme pattern ABABBCBCC).

Childe Harold is basically an outsider looking for distraction in foreign land. This poem is useful in thinking about Orientalism, as our hero is resolved to visit the "scorching climes beyond the sea." One can also approach the poem from the "self and imagination" angle. Byron's character closely represents himself, and the creation of such an identity is based off vice in relation to foreign countries.



Crystal Lie / Ian Newman's section