Riflessioni poetiche sul lago Leman e la natura

Lyric of the poem

General analysis of the poem

The poem begins with an invocation.
In this poem there are many run-on-lines, two alliterations.
There is a metonymy, two similes and a metaphor.

In this poem the poet addresses the lake with positive adjective, he in fact defines the lake clear and placid (line 1).
The quiet of this place invites the poet to avoid from “earth’s troubled waters”, line 4, and “ocean’s roar”, line 7.

The poet loves lake Leman because it represents the solitary way to be in communion with nature, and also because it reminds to the poet the “sister’s voice reproved”

Lord Byron’s writing style

As a matter of fact, in this poem his writing style is very recognisable.
For example, he tends to create suspense in his lines and to increase passions and tensions in order to let the reader feel intense emotions and be aware of the interior conflicts of the poet, which can be extended to the understanding of all the human beings.

This deep state, on the other hand, can be also reached by the use of irony and satire that allow the poet to fully express his pulsion of rebellion against social standards, moral rules and the bourgeois hypocrisy.

Since Byron combines the power of the impressions and laugh, he is able to create literary works full of sophisticated poetic images and symbols, which gives vivacity and vitality the lines so that the reader is captivated.
But, it needs to be remembered that this effect can be produced by the poet only if he manages to master the oratory, the prosody and the writing skills, as well as to preserve and take advantage of his inspiration. Otherwise, in fact, the harmony made by the balancing of all the elements that characterize a poem fails and it can be perceived that something is broken.

In this poem, it can be also seen why Lord Byron was considered one of the most important Romantic poets: he reaches to describe nature, the connection with it and the sense the exchange of realities and senses in a sublime way.
He visited lots of different places in his life and they are more or less recreated in almost all his poems.
In this way, what it seems like a bucolic or a naturalistic poem of him, in reality, it is a lyric poem because it reflect his memory of the environment, not the environment as it is: the remembrance is a filter of what exists in its own form.