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Essay Archive - Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero
Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero
In Byron's poem, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" the main character is
portrayed as a dark brooding man, who doesn't like society and wants to escape
from the world because of his discontent with it. Through the poem we see the
strong resemblance the Byronic hero has to many of todays popular characters,
such as Batman.
In the third stanza of the poem we learn that Childe Harold is the product
of a long line of nobility. ÒChilde Harold, was he hight-but whence his name
and lineage long.Ó Bruce Wayne who is B....
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