Lord Byron's "Darkness": The Faithful but Fated Dog "Darkness" is a word which is at the same time both dreadful and evocative. This is the one word Lord Byron chooses as the title for his poem. It is a fitting description of Byron's chilling, but powerful, poem, "Darkness". "Darkness" is a foreboding tale depicting the end of life on earth. Byron's emotional and descriptive diction and imagery create the tone and setting in which the world comes to an end. It is an end most completely embodied in one small passage about a dog, which shows the keen link between Byron and the other Romantic poets. "Darkness" is begun with the line "I had a dream, which was not all a dream." The initial impression struck by the word, "dream", is one of inconsequence and a generally positive feeling. The second half of the line denies and rep....

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