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2.4. " Bride of Abydos "
The poem was created in the first half of November 1813 within one week. On December 5, 1813, the poet entered in his diary: “The Bride of Abydos ” came out on Thursday, December 2nd ... she distracted my thoughts from reality and occupied them with fiction; I turned from selfish regrets to living memories and took me to a country that in my memory is painted with the most joyful and ominous, but invariably bright colors.

Indeed, the poem is full of colorful descriptions of the East. The Bride of Abydos is called by Byron a Turkish tale. The poem begins with descriptions of a "far and beautiful" land:

"Who knows the land where the sky is blue

Cloudless, like young happiness,

Where the cedar rustles and the grapes curl,

Where is the breeze that carries the fragrance

Under the burden in the ether drowns,

In all its glory where the rose blooms

Where olive and lemon are sweet,

And the meadow is always dotted with flowers,

And the nightingale in the forests does not stop,

Where everything is wonderful, the view of groves and glades,

Azure vault and rainbow mist,

And purple shining ocean,

And the virgins there are fresher than fragrant roses,

Scattered in their wavy curls? [10]

The plot of this story is as follows: the gray-haired Sultan Yafar decides to give his only daughter Zuleika as a wife to Osman. But she is in love with her brother Selim, and the feeling is mutual. Selim invites her to run away and appoints a meeting place for Zuleika , where he must tell the whole truth about himself. When Zuleika arrived at the appointed time, the “new” Selim appeared before her. He told her that he was the leader of a gang against her father Yafar , that he was not her brother, that once upon a time Yafar poisoned his brother Abdala, Selim's father. And now Selim is ready to take revenge on Yafar .

But he doesn't succeed. The evil father tracked them down. In vain did Selim try to escape. Yafar shot him. Together with Selim, Zuleika also dies . But revenge was still done. Zuleika was the only joy of her father and she was gone. The killer is alone.

Just like Gyaur , Selim from Bride of Abydos opposes the tyrant out of personal revenge. Byron manages to show the features of the character of Selim, who was formed in the conditions of the East. The poet looks at the East through the eyes of a European, rejecting the pseudo- Eastern , superficial Orientalism. “A European, even in the ecstasy of Oriental luxury, must preserve the taste and look of a European. That is why Byron is so charming in Gyaur, in the Abydos bride and so on. - wrote A.S. Pushkin [8].