Mermaids
Mermaids have been around in European stories for a really long time. Their traditional job is to lure ships toward jagged rocks by looking all beautiful and then causing the ships to wreck and sin...
The Black Friar
Everyone likes a good ghost story, so Byron decides to indulge us in the final cantos of Don Juan by introducing a ghost of his own that he calls "The Black Friar." As legend goes, this old monk wa...
Kissing
If there's one thing that Byron is willing to be serious about, it's the physical expression of love between a guy and a girl. In moments where two characters are kissing, Byron drops his satirical...
Cannibalism
What would an epic poem be without a shipwreck and some casual cannibalism? Yup, Don Juan's boat goes down in the Mediterranean and he ends up starving in a lifeboat with some other men. The others...