Endorsement to the Deed of Separation in the April of 1816
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Separation in 1816
Written amid Lord Byron’s separation from his wife Annabella Milbanke in 1816, the short poem registers bitterness and disillusionment. It addresses the broken marital vows directly, treating promises of love and honour as empty rhetoric. The voice is personal and accusatory, using the moment of domestic rupture to expose perceived hypocrisy and to assert the poet’s wounded perspective during a public and painful episode of his life.
Read Complete AnalysesA year ago, you swore, fond she! ‘To love, to honour,’ and so forth: Such was the vow you pledged to me, And here’s exactly what ’tis worth.
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