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Lord Byron was a major English Romantic poet. The literary archetype of the troubled, defiant, self-important Byronic Hero inspires Raja to live a similarly heroic life. This archetype is based on Byron’s characters and his personal decision to join the Greek War of Independence, in which he died at only 36 years old.
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Lord Byron Term Timeline in Clear Light of Day
The timeline below shows where the term Lord Byron appears in Clear Light of Day. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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All summer, Bim sooths Raja by reading him poetry. He loves British writers like Byron, Tennyson, and Swinburne, but he invariably gets tired of them and starts quoting couplets in...
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...Hindu nationalists, but he started telling Bim that he would become a hero, like Lord Byron, who died after joining the Greek War of Independence.
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