Innocence takes numerous forms in our world – innocence in the biblical sense, legal innocence, and the simple innocence of the world innate in every newborn. Innocence, in various forms, and evolutions, can be observed in the works of Lord Gordon Byron, such as The Childe Harold’s Pilgramage and Don Juan. To define a particular […]
Don Juan explores cross-dressing and immersion in female gender roles. Byron crosses male gender roles with female gender roles by dressing Don Juan as a woman, thus resulting in experiencing powers unknown to men and allows Byron to passively review the transformation, for by not digressing or allowing Juan to act as a woman just […]
Byron’s work The Island is based on the actual mutiny that took place upon the HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789. The result being Captain Bligh and the crew loyal to him being thrown into life boats with a small amount of food and other items to survive on their own. Under the command of […]
The Byronic Hero is said to be a reincarnation of Byron himself, influenced partly by his own life. Because of Byron’s colorful life, his hero developed into a figure that sometimes borders on the criminal. This can be seen in Byron’s poem The Giaour, which tells the tale of a foreigner who trespasses into a […]
Wonder, magic, mystery, and secrets have captivated us for generations. As humans we are constantly striving for something more. We strive to strengthen, better, and improve ourselves. Weather this be through social, political, or personal outlets. Presently we strive to better our technology and advance ourselves in ways only previously dreamed. In years past the […]
What is a heroine? Can the women in Byronic works be considered true heroines? These are interesting, yet difficult questions to answer because of the varying opinions of what the definition of a heroine is. Likewise, there is more than one type of heroine, especially in literature. The definition of a heroine also changes throughout […]
Apocalyptic stories reveal a darker side of human nature. When civilization ceases to exist, what happens to mankind? When there are no limits, restrictions, and thus complete and total anarchy- how does man choose to live? Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness” offers an apocalyptic vision of a world desolate of light, which creates societal chaos, and […]
Vampires, in the modern sense, exude qualities such as being cunning and luring people to them, which inevitably results in their doom. The vampire also has a rebellious and attractive side, which can correlate to the Byronic Hero. A vampire may also have a complexion that is corpse-like, as in it has a dead, pale […]
Nature is a very powerful and explored topic within literature and film alike. Many things destroy nature, however, such as war, consumption, or industrialization which is a prevalent idea in the genre of steampunk. Through Byron, Miyazaki, and with the use of steampunk, nature is a timeless topic explored through different periods in a similar […]
If Byron’s legacy gave rise to the art of steampunk then so too did it change the shape of video games. Not what he would have expected I’m sure, but the gaming industry is currently eclipsing many others in terms of consumers and the rate at which it’s expanding. The interest in steampunk in videogames […]
A television show by BBC started in 1963 featuring a character interwoven into past and future as an eternal, knowledgeable figure. He calls himself the Doctor. The Doctor’s life is a long one. In the story, the Doctor is about 2000 years old, give or take, and has a time machine called the TARDIS (Time […]
There are many things that come to mind when one thinks of the term Steampunk. Some begin to imagine people dressed in cosplay as English ladies and gents with top hats, cogs and wheels, and goggles as part of their attire. Some begin to think of an advanced world with robots and nearly everything is […]
Initial Game Synopsis: Bioshock Infinite is a complex story filled with interesting characters, radical settings, and shocking plot lines. Dewitt is a man of misery. After the sins he committed at Wounded Knee, he gives up his infant daughter because of his troubled state of mind. Years pass, and he is led to the floating […]
But by the Grace of Lord Byron “Hebrew Melodies” If one were to ask a random assortment of people’s to name the first three “Classical” composers that come to mind, the responses would likely include such names as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. If one were to ask a classically educated musician to name several […]
“And suck the blood of all thy race…at midnight strain the stream of life” (The Giaour, Byron, Levine, pg. 124) http://screencrush.com/interview-with-the-vampire-then-and-now/ Pale, provocative, and cunning- this is the depiction of modern vampires. […]
Surprisingly, the performance of Hebrew Melodies was an interesting and rewarding experience. Now, that’s not to say I wasn’t expecting anything less than greatness, but often it seems that reproductions, in general, are sometimes lacking. But to have listened to arrangements that hadn’t necessarily been publicly heard in over a hundred years was an experience […]
Theatre Hall’s, well, theatre was wide open and filled primarily with empty seats on the day I sat down to witness the live performance of three of Byron and Nathan’s Hebrew Melodies. The large open space and high ceiling were just right in order to put an audience in a temple-going humor. Rightly so it […]
The performance on February 20th: Arriving in the dimly lit theatre and settling into a seat, I pull out the sheet of the melodies that were given to us in class. Reading over them once more and wondering how different these will sound compared to the one we had heard in class. The audience grew […]
The concert in Theater Hall performed hymns translated by Lord Byron as requested by Isaac Nathan. These artists sang a few of the famous songs ‘She Walks in Beauty’, ‘If That High World’, and ‘The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept’. Upon hearing these songs, I was taken to my memories of sitting in church and […]
A little background knowledge on the Hebrew Melodies: Lord Byron–writing the words of the poems, along with his friend, Isaac Nathan–who composed the Jewish-styled instrumentation to the songs, created the Hebrew Melodies in 1815. Seeing the two musicians while I was walking into the theater–one a singer, the other a pianist, made me wonder how […]
A brief introduction to Byron and Nathan’s Melodies: In the early 1800’s, Lord Byron and Isaac Nathan collaborated to fashion several Hebrew melodies. With Byron’s poetic techniques, and Nathan’s musician background, the songs they had created all seemed to focus on religion and the afterlife. Sheila A. Spector (2008) in “The Liturgical Context of the […]
At first when we were given the poems to read over before the performance, I really wasn’t sure what I thought of them. I had a hard time imagining them being played at any event or even what the music would even really sound like. I couldn’t get the sound/image, if you will, in my […]
To William E. Minahan: Doctor Minhan lived during the late 1800’s-early 1900’s, and originated from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His unfortunate death came from the tragic sinking of the Titanic. A first class passenger, William, along with his wife and daughter, were unable to escape the descending vessel. His grave can be found in […]
There is a truth to be had in the propensity for Nature to recede as one travels southward. The land as once dotted with the mark of Gaia; her shrub and birdsong, as we love her, finds less and less room beside the sprawl of industry and man’s ego. Hill, and plain, and valley green […]
On a cold and frosty morning, I leave the confines of my bed early on a Saturday morning to pursue a voyage to a local state park near my hometown of Manitowoc called Point Beach State Park. Nature can provide a viable conversation that most humans can’t provide. It has been ages since I’ve had […]
Oh, a great journey lies before me. It is with both wonder and horror that I come to the far western lands of a great nation. A land covered in near-eternal mist is a place where I can see God and man collide. Roads and men pillage a once pristine realm of lush life and […]
(A scene from Allouez Catholic Cemetery). I cannot pretend to be disappointed. The silence is not broken by a gust of wind in the branches. It is an invitation. Welcome. It is distressing that nature speaks to me, for this cemetery is tethered within a city. Whistles of automobiles puncture the sleep of the dead. A flicker of […]
In an attempt to appease my board mates I have traveled with them to a place of childhood remembrance. Why one would choose to travel anywhere at this ghastly time of year is beyond me and borders on the insane. Nonetheless we have set out at the suns highest hour to retrace moments of whimsical […]
To Earl Louis “Curly” Lambeau:* He awoke to the day with a heavy sigh and rose out of bed to face a day that would prove most interesting, for Childe Harold shall embark on yet another journey. This journey will take him to a place where the town itself is the home of a […]