“I don’t know how to beautiful. I don’t know how to gentle. There is a right way to be this gender. It has been taught to me since birth. I have failed every class.”
Some poems, mostly these in the first half, were actually good with original content, but majority of the book felt generic.
"I have not been thy dupe, nor am thy prey
But was my own destroyer, and will be
My own hereafter."
It was the first lengthy Byron poem I've read. Manfred is very poetic and it is really easy to find lines worthy of underlining. I found the way the theme of immortality was handled very original and impressive and the ending was satisfying. But the majority of the poem is very vague with very few things explained, so reading it without any knowledge of the plot would be a bit difficult.