Appreciate the text of the poem Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Ocean by giving its background

 Appreciate the text of the poem "Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Ocean" by giving its background. (JUne)

 Or Which ty pe of stanza form has been used by Byron in the poem "Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Ocean"? Why did he used such type? Explain. * * 

Ans.'Roll on Thou Deep and Dark Blue Ocean' is an extract from Canto IV of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Stanzas 178 to 183 are the last but 3 stanzas of the canto. The poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage describes the journey of Childe Harold, whose experiences correspond to Byron's own. On July 2, 1809 Byron left England along with a Cambridge friend John Cam Hobhouse, his servant Fletcher and his 'little page', Robert Rushton. On July 6 they reached Lisbon. The first two cantos describe the pilgrim, surfeited with his past life of sin and pleasure, finding diversions in his journey across Portugal, Spain, the Ionian Islands and bania. Byron returned to Newstead in England in 1811 and the first two cantos were published in 1812. It was received enthusiastically by London society and launched Byron as a major poet of England. 'I woke one morning' Byron wrote in March 1812, 'and found myself famous." In the fourth canto, Byron speaks directly about his experiences in Italy, his meditations on time and history, on Venice and Petrarch, Ferrara and Tasso, Florence and Boccaccio , Rome and her great men ending with the symbol of the sea. Byron had an abiding interest in the mountains and the sea. The poem is an extract meditation on the symbol of the sea.

The Stanza Form Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is in an old stanza form. It was invented by Edmund Spenser (1552-99) and used in The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), his greatest work. It thus came to be called the Spenserian stanza. In his preface to the first and second cantos of the poem Byron wrote thus: The stanza of Spenser, according to one of our most successful poets, admits of every variety.