Lord Byron

From reading this text I think that it is an opinionated and comedic type of story. The way that he ends certain stanzas reveals his thoughts of writer like Wordsworth that he was probably afraid to say to the man himself. However, the way that he pokes fun at these other authors is quite funny. There are not too many other writers that have the courage to write things the same way and display their beliefs as openly as he does. But even though I think it is funny, I also think that it resembles The Prelude in certain ways. He discusses where he has traveled to and what he has done in his life time it shows how highly he thought of himself and how confident (or arragant) he was. It is easy to mistake his confidence for cockiness as well.