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2.5. "Corsair"
In December 1813, Byron began work on a new poem, The Corsair, "written with love and taken from life." He put Tasso's poems as an epigraph. The story begins with a preface, which is dedicated to Thomas Moore. The poem consists of three cantos, each of which begins with an epigraph. The epigraph is the poetic lines of Dante.

The hero of the poem is the leader of pirates - fearless people who have violated the despotic law of a proprietary society, because they cannot live among "lustful slaves" and

" Ambitious , thirsty for comfort,

Whose sleep is not strong, whose laughter is not cheerful ... "[ 10]

They prefer to lead a free life on a desert island, away from the captivity of big cities.

The corsair, their brave and wise leader, is the same rebel and renegade as the Gyaur. On the island of pirates, everyone reveres and fears him. He is stern and powerful. The crews of the pirate brigs are obedient to the wave of his hand, the enemies tremble at his mere name. But he is terribly lonely, he has no friends, a fatal secret weighs on him, no one knows anything about his past. Only two or three hints, thrown in passing, can be concluded that Conrad in his youth, like other heroes of the "oriental poems", passionately longed to "do good."

Like the fate of Giaur, love plays a fatal role in Konrad's life. Having fallen in love with Medora , he forever remains faithful to her alone. With the death of Medora , all joy of life is lost for Conrad, he mysteriously disappears. What was the end of Conrad, no one knows.

The hero of The Corsair is, as it were, all the time immersed in his inner world, he admires his suffering, his pride and jealously guards his loneliness, not allowing anyone to disturb his thoughts; this hides the individualism of the hero, who, as it were, stands above other people, whom he despises for their insignificance and weakness of spirit. So, he is not able to appreciate the sacrificial love of the beautiful Gulnara, who saved him from the dungeon at the risk of her life. The image of Gulnara is also covered with gloomy romance. Once in her life she knew true love. Since then, she can no longer put up with the hateful life of the concubine and slave of Seid; her rebellion against vile reality takes on effective forms: she executes judgment on her tyrant Seyid, kills him and forever abandons her homeland, where she can no longer return.

Konrad is related to Giaur and other heroes of the "oriental poems" by the mighty fortitude. However, his fearless, fiery nature, despite its inherent features of individualism, is still more diverse and more complex than the characters of the heroes of other poems; there is room not only for anger, but also for compassion.

Although the poem was taken from life, Conrad was not Byron; but he was a hero of the Byronic type - ferocious and unsociable, wild, controlled by his fate, a hurricane that hits the world. They do not know about him where he comes from, where to strive. It is shrouded in mystery. His past always hides a crime that remains unknown to us. "For him there is no there is no repentance, no despair, no redemption, that which is perfect cannot be destroyed, the indelible cannot be blotted out; he will find rest only in the grave” [7]. This is most often an apostate or an atheist, he is not looking for paradise, he is looking for rest. In order to distract himself from himself, he throws himself into action, into struggle; a corsair or a pirate, he declares war on society: he pursues strong sensations. Whether his death awaits - he is ready to buy deliverance from boredom at any cost.

Konrad was a man of action, a leader of pirates; Byron, oppressed by his laziness, did nothing. Conrad was strong, Byron was lame; Conrad is swarthy, Byron is pale. Conrad's laughter was a caustic sneer "which made people furious and shuddered"; Byron's laugh was cheerful and charming.

The mysterious heroic image of Conrad aroused deep interest throughout Europe at that time. As Pushkin noted, contemporaries saw in this image a romantic image of the "man of fate", Napoleon, with whom Conrad is related by unlimited power over the troops and constant military happiness.

The poem "The Corsair" is a masterpiece of English poetry. The passionate power of a romantic dream is combined in it with the comparative simplicity of the artistic development of the theme; the formidable heroic energy of the verse in Le Corsaire is combined with its subtlest musicality; poetry of landscapes - with depth in the depiction of the psychology of the hero.