ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

POETRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
A
John keats
B
Lord Byron
C
Solan
D
Sappho
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, dies in what is now Greece, where he had traveled to support the Greek struggle for independence from Turkey. Even today, he is considered a Greek national hero.

Detailed explanation-2: -During his stay in Italy, he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a folk hero.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Byron continued his journey without acquiring further diseases and left Greece on 22 April 1811. He returned in Greece in 1823 but not as a traveller. He returned as a warrior during the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire and was adored by the Greeks more than any other foreign warrior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. Although made famous by the autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18)-and his many love affairs-he is perhaps better known today for the satiric realism of Don Juan (1819–24).

Detailed explanation-5: -The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero-defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt-for which, to many, he seemed the model.

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