A roving

Cards (6)

  • seems to be adapted from a scottish folk ballad
  • what scottish folk ballad was it adapted from?
    the jolly beggar
  • 'pleasures a sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure' -byron
  • what was byron known for?
    love affairs, breakups and life of scandal
  • what is he thought to be?
    bisexual
  • byron was infamously wild and young and sexual but this poem captures a feeling of getting older and realizing you need to slow down, and that wild youth can't last forever