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Posted by Tyrone Slothrop on 2024-December-25 08:35:07 EST, Wednesday

In reply to Re: Darkness posted by griffith on 2024-December-25 03:17:46 EST, Wednesday

The poem was written in the year without a summer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer) when Byron and the Shelleys took refuge at Villa Diodati (that's where Mary Shelley got the idea for Frankenstein). What happened was a worldwide volcanic winter caused by eruption of Mount Tambora a year earlier. Neither of the two collected editions of Byron's works I own mentions this fact -- literary scholars are often strangely oblivious of the real physical world.

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Not about volcanoes, but something else - griffith on 2024-December-27 23:21:31 EST, Friday - (12 / 0 / 1)
- Metaphors? No, allegories. nt - griffith on 2024-December-27 23:23:03 EST, Friday - (11 / 0 / 0)
saw the name Tambora - griffith on 2024-December-25 19:33:48 EST, Wednesday - (11 / 0 / 0)