I can see many displays in Don Juan that would suggest Lord Byron wrote about his own experiences in life. Here is yet another good example to show his inner pain being directly related to himself. In stanza 61 Donna Julia is presented with a mixture
sincerity and fun. The elevated though rather conventional praise of the woman?s beauty is suddenly deflated by the sudden lowering of tone in the last. The comic reversal, however, makes fun not of Donna Julia but of the poet, laughing at the lover?
tendency to idealize (and at the embodiment of such idealization in the love sonnet) and bringing love down to a matter-of-fact human level.
Donna Julia herself, however, still follows the pattern of the idealized heroine. Donna Julia is portrayed to be pretty, gentle, sweet, sexually-attractive and even sexual responsive but also passive, submissive, self-sacrificing, and accepting of her
ate to the
point of victimization. In the early episode, Donna Julia breads somewhat out of this role by being the older (23 years old!) married woman and not the innocent girl. Byron thus somewhat reverses gender roles and has the sexually mature woman take a m
e active
role in seducing the naive and innocent young man. (Don Juan, Canto I http://citd.scar.untoronto.ca/English/ENGBO2Y/DonJuan.html). I believe that Lord Byron was expressing is own pain of the sexual abuse he endured b
May Grey at school in his earlier childhood in the character Donna Julia. So in my opinion of all I have discovered about this literary poet is that Lord Byron was not born with a talent for writing poetry. He however did write from his own heart. Wh
h is what a truly brilliant poet must do. Had he not have been exposed to physical and sexual abuse in his youth. I feel there is a good possibility he would have never written a single poem He would have had a different profession altogether along w
h an entirely different life style. The world was blessed with the many poems of Lord Bryon but only through the suffering of another human being.