Change, Rest, Fix: Poem Analysis

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Change, Rest, Fix
(Favorite Lord Byron Poem) Everyday is similar to one another. Today, the students of Worland High School will go to said place, go to class, receive homework, go to their afterschool activities or home, then most of them will do their homework. Day in and day out, every day until the weekend comes. So, let us change that. Today, class 303’s 5th period class will write an essay about which Byron poem they like more. At least one-third (if not more) of the class will write about Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Apostrophe to the Ocean because the poem is the epitome of change. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Apostrophe to the Ocean, a poem of Lord Byron that has valid points for everybody to understand.
In Lord Byron’s poem, he tells of the excitement a person may achieve in
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Byron was a ladies man, no denying, but he wanted to be alone, at least for a while. Many people understand that feeling, but not all the time. Most people most times believe they need to be around people (mostly around their age) and hang out or party. Those people don’t understand having a feeling of aloneness all the time. For the people who do want to be alone or feel like they need to most the time are never alone. They usually have to be around family when they are not in a social surrounding. Never a second alone, for anybody. Lord Byron made this poem to not only to give his thanks to the ocean, but to also say it will never be destroyed or, more specifically, that the ocean shouldn’t be destroyed. This poem may have been the first for economics change and, at the time, no one realized it. Lord Byron had stated that “unchangeable, save to thy wild waves’ play.” (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Apostrophe to the Ocean, Lord Byron (George Gordon), line 43) To sum up that statement, the ocean will never be destroyed which was incorrect. Today, there is a surplus of pollution in the ocean. The ocean is being