So I'll just share cultural stuff today... see? My journal is not that bad
Beware: cuteness ahead
So, I wanted to share with you a poem by... Lord Byron! Many of you will know it already, but for those who don't, what do you think? do you like it? do you think it's a normal lovey-dovey poem? a normal elegy? do you see anything weird?
( what! literature? are you serious? )Now, beautiful, ne?
But what people would not believe is...
it is a story that hides a secret love: a true story.
Thyrza's RL name? John Edleston
Thing is, he never said so, they asked them lots of times who Thyrza was, but still he wouldn't answer...
So how do we know?
Cause hell yes he wrote letters and his fans kept them xDDD
This all began at Cambridge University (random: I'm going there this summer!), where he entered in 1805. It was his first year at Trinity College, and he met a rather cute choirboy called John Edleston, and almost inmediately became too attached to him.
History tells us that one year after this happened, Edleston gave him a red stone with the shape of a heart. Around that time, Byron wrote "The Cornelian", which is the name of the stone.
Let's check some of
his letters:
Please, just read them it's WAY TOO CUTE!!!
( This is too cute for many of you guys )SO, he was thinking of living together? that's so cute, especially in such a time... *____*
Then, what happened to this beautiful and pure love story? Because Lord Byron is known for being with too many women, right? So wth did happen then?
Well, Byron went to Malta,
the place where people wanna go with the ERASMUS program, just because it's party 24-hours, and spent a while there, you know, it was difficult to travel and so on. Then he came back to England in July, 1811, just to find his mother dying. She passed away in August. He lost three more young friends around that time.
He couldn't get in touch with Edleston, and he never saw him again. In October he received a letter from Edleston's sister, telling him John had died in May.
The letters from that time are very sad, I'm telling you:
( I wanna cry... )That's like, very sad, ne?
Apparently Byron got a ring from Edleston and wore it for 13 years after his death. He later said that their realtionship had been "a violent, though pure love and passion"...
So, is anyone still with me after such a long post? (gomen ^^U)
This is more or less what I wrote for my Romantic Poetry class last course...
I hope you enjoyed it, and maybe learnt something?
Oh, well I suppose I'm the only one interested in this kind of stuff right?