Concetti Chiave
- The poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by George Gordon Byron is divided into four independent parts known as "cantos".
- The protagonist, Harold, is a young nobleman whose world travels provide the author with chances to depict picturesque and exotic settings.
- The first two cantos are set in Spain, Portugal, Albania, and Greece, highlighting the countries' glorious history and landscapes.
- The third canto explores the human ability to forget, with Harold immersing himself in imaginative creativity and the natural world for renewed vitality.
- The fourth canto, set in Italy, features vivid descriptions of nature, reflecting the author's mood and the solitary, melancholic temperament of Harold.
The poem is divided in four independent parts called "cantos".
The unity is given by the protagonist Harold, a young nobleman who travels around the world.
Viaggi di Harold
Harold's disillusione with life lead him to England and this give the author the opportunities to introduce picturesque and exotic settings.
The first and the second "cantos" are setting in Spain, Portugal, Albania and Greece.
They evoke the glorious part and the famous movements and landscape of these particular countries.
Il terzo canto
In the third "cantos" the author dealt with the possibilities opened up by the human capacity to forget.
The autor, Byron, experiments with his own ability in order to distract the protagonist from memory. Harold became completely absorbed by imaginative creativity, and also by the attraction from the natural world; both provide him a new vitality.
Structurally the "cantos" follows Byron's journey.
Il quarto canto
The fourth "cantos", that is set in Italy, contains a serious of several descriptions of nature, especially of the sea.
The nature reflects the mood and the feelings of the author.
This is why Byron describes the wild and all the cruel aspect of the nature which best suits the solitary and the melancholy temperament of the hero of his poem.
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