'Darkness' is a word which is at the same time both dreadful and evocative. This is the one word Lord Byron chooses as the title for his poem. It is a fitting description of Byron's chilling, but powerful, poem, 'Darkness'. 'Darkness' is a foreboding tale depicting the end of life on earth. Byron's emotional and descriptive diction and imagery create the tone and setting in which the world comes to an end. It is an …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…possible outcome of life and the world itself. This oblivion is both painful and inevitable. It is not, however, approached from a fatalistic standpoint. Simply because it is to be, does not mean either the dog or Byron is willing to abandon his ardent devotion to an ideal. This unremitting passion allied to an ever-present, but concealed, terror was a powerful lure to the Romantic poets and was most thoroughly explored and portrayed by Byron.