“Smile on—nor venture to unmask/ Man’s Heart, and view the Hell that’s there” (1.84.9) –Solitary, alienated through History (world) and history (Byron’s own), displaced, loves the ladies of Cadiz, world weary, semi-to fully-autobiographical, digressive.

“I stand/ Upon my strength—I do defy—deny--/ Spurn back, and scorn Ye!—” (3.4119-21) –(Closet) Dramatic representation of Byronic Hero, solitary, alienated, supernatural, nihilistic, most ‘Shellyan’ of Byron’s works, Satanic

“I know him by his pallid brow;/ I know him by the evil eye/ That aids his envious treachery;/ I know him by his jet-black barb” (608-10) –solitary, historical, alienated, against institutions, etc., etc.

“That man of loneliness and mystery/ Scarce seen to smile and seldom heard to sigh;/ Whose name appalsthe fiercest of his crew” (1.8.5-7) –Piratical, solitary, anti-institution, world-weary, strict moral/amoral code, etc.

“I want a hero...But can’t find any In the present age/ Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one);/ So, as I said, I’ll take my friend Don Juan” (1.1-5) –anti-Byronic, anti-institutional, semi-autobiographical, comic/pantomimic, alienated through history, displaced