English Literature Romantic Poetry Lord Byron Poems: Don Juan Canto 1 Short Questions with Answers

English Literature Romantic Poetry
Lord Byron Poems: Don Juan Canto 1 Short Questions with Answers S.Q: 1-11
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Q.1. What is satire?
Ans. Satire is a literary piece of composition which intends to arouse ridicule, contempt, or disgust at abuses and follies of men and women of the society. Its aim is to correct the malpractices by inspiring both indignation and laughter with a combination of criticism, ironic humour and wit. Satire is sometimes divided into formal and indirect. In formal satire, the writer or his mouthpiece speaks in the first person directly to the reader, or sometimes to other character. In indirect satire, the writer creates a story peopled with characters who speak and act in such a manner that themselves become the target of satire. Satire may also be classified into two Horatian and Juvenalian. Horatian satire (named after Roman poet Horace) is gentle, amused and mildly corrective. In contrast Juvenalian satire is harsh, biting, bitter, misanthropic and full of indignation and contempt.
Q.2. Comment on Byron as a satirist?
Ans. Byron is a satirist. His Don Juan is an epic satire. The hero of this epic satire is Don Juan, a Spanish adventurer, and his biography the thread on which Byron hangs description, episodes and satirical digressions. In Don Juan Byron records the panoramic survey of human society, with foibles and weaknesses of social institutions and political personalities. In the poem he satirized the code of love prevailing at the moment. Hypocrisy and corruption of women is satirized in the character of Inez and Julia. Before marriage Inez had illicit love affair with Alfonso and she continued this affair even after her marriage. But it's ironical that she wants to make her son a man of perfect morality remaining herself involved in immorality. Similarly, Julia gets involved in having sex with Juan. When Juan is with her in her bed, Alfonso comes to search the room. But she denies the presence of Juan. She begins to rebuke her husband. She starts weeping to prove her Innocence. Ultimately, Juan is discovered and she proves herself unfaithful. Thus in the poem, Byron satirizes individual, social institutions and modern society in general.
Q.3. Is Byron a romantic poet?
Ans. Byron is undoubtedly a romantic poet. Like the Romantics, he had a deep love for nature, freedom, passion, melancholy and romance (i) Byron is a romantic in his treatment of nature. He does not perceive any divine power, or like Keats any spirit of Beauty in nature. His approach to nature is realistic. It is at the same time and helping agent and destructive. It helps Juan and Julia's union, which at the same time spoils them. (ii) Byron is romantic in his treatment of love. In this he is much more adventurous than Wordsworth and more experienced than Keats. In the case of love, Byron (1) was searching for a dominating woman like her mother, and (2) for a powerful passion that come out of the affection of the first love. In Don Juan Byron embodies both these in Julia.(iii) Byron is a true representative of the Romantic spirit in his belief in individual liberty and his hatred for tyranny and despotism (iv) Like the romantics, his poetry is pervaded by a sense of melancholy and steeped in romance.(v) His poetic inspiration like that of Wordsworth or Shelley has come from the French Revolution.
Q.4. Why is he called a romantic paradox?
Ans. Though Byron occupies a peculiar position in the history of English romanticism, he comes forward as the dauntless champion of classicism, for which he is called a romantic paradox. (i) He proclaims himself an adherent of the Augustan school, and admires Pope and disparages Wordsworth and Coleridge whom the romantics held in high esteem. (ii) Unlike the romantics he is fond of realism. He is concerned to show things really as they are, and not as they ought to be. (iii) He despises imagination which is the central creed of romanticism. He finds imagination to be quite at variance with reality. (iv) Like Augustan writers, his genius is essentially satiric. His main works are satirical in content like the works of the classical poets.(v) His anti-romantic attitude reveals itself in his love for the Augustan poetic diction.
Q.5. What is an epic hero?
Ans. (i) An epic hero is a man of strong personality. (ii) He is a formidable figure of a high stature. (iii) He belongs to a high pedigrees, and possesses valour to the highest degree. (iv) He stands for noble causes and in course of the story he performs many noble deeds for the interest of his tribe or nation. (v) He is drawn as a great, noble and inspiring personality.
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