The Image of Darkness in Selected Poems by (George Gordon) Lord Byron

Byron in some of his poems utilizes darkness as an image. This image is significant because it bears a hidden political, social and personal meaning. The use of the image of darkness is to express some of Byron's ideas like the sense of the end of the world, the social collapse in relation to its order or hierarchy and the consequences of all these on mankind and the species on earth. It might be a way to show the poet's future view of the universe. In some of those poems he tries to show his view about certain theme in life like nature, spiritual love, and beauty or even political ideas. Byron, in those poems and through utilizing darkness, was after presenting a political, personal as well as ecological views of the world. Consequently, darkness becomes a way to envision and shape the universe in a special image.