Cradle Of Filth - Byronic Man Meaning
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This song is basically about the 19th century english poet lord Byron who invented the byronic hero (basically an anti hero) archetype in his epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage which was semi autobiographical. Some characteristics of the byronic hero are:
he is constantly brooding and neither sighs or smiles, he has a huge amount of admirers who are more then willing to have sex with him in fact will attempt to do exactly that, he is often very vampiric in his appearance as he wore a lot of black later in his life,he likes heavy drinking that will coarse out burst of passion and violence,
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