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Various Literary Characters

I. A. Childe Harold: Childe Harold is the main character in a lengthy poem by Lord Byron. Childe Harold is a traveler who reports on his wanderings and who is passionate, well read, and eloquent in detailing his travels. Byron sated that Childe Harold was a completely fictitious character, but in his manuscript the poet originally used a name for the character that indicates Harold is a stand-in for the poet himself. Childe Harold is a powerful voice for offering a good picture of the various nations of Europe through which he travels.

B. Tintern Abbey: Tintern Abbey is a ruin in Monmouthshire in the Wye Valley. William Wordsworth visited this place on a walking tour in 1793 when he was 23 years of age, and he would return there in 1798 and use the occasion to recall his earlier visit and to write the poem "Lines" with the subscript "Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey." The Abbey serves as an image of the way nature and the man-made intertwine. It also becomes a reason for the poet to remember his sister and the lessons he learned from her, much as he recalls the lessons he has learned from nature.

C. A wedding guest: A wedding guest is a central figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The wedding guest is stopped by the mariner outside the wedding, and he listens to the story told by the Mariner. In essence, the Mariner gains control of the wedding guest through hypnosis and so mesmerizes him with the story he has to tell. The wedding guest is not merely an audience but is also the consciousness that is changed by the story. The Mariner is offering a warning in the form of his story, and the wedding guest does heed the words and emerges a changed man, a "sadder and wiser man."

D. "Dover Beach": "Dover Beach" is a poem by Matthew Arnold. The beach itself is the site where the poet expresses the view that past and present are bound together, and the ocean lapping a...

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