In “Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”, Lord Byron appears to be a man who passed his thirties, and began the era of the older gentleman. He seemed like a sensitive guy who wanted to write down all what he has in his mind and get inspired by everything around him. This inspiration can tell the reader that this guy is amazed by Greek gods and heroes even though he was not a Greek. Hence, he used the stories and tales of Leander, the Greek hero in his poem and compared his experience with that hero’s experience, which might make it unreliable because he is talking about himself, and trying to tell the reader about himself and his glory, even though this reader doesn’t know if it was true or not. Furthermore, his poem is written general audience to invite them to explore his experience and salute his glory that he achieved.

Byron drew his situation in the poem as a guy who is proud of himself as a guy who achieved a great goal by reaching his glory and crossing the river by swimming from Sestos to Abydos. He enhanced the image that he wanted the reader to have in mind by stating that the what he did was achieved in hard circumstances, like saying that he crossed the river even though he has “limbs”.

The poem’s sentences are short, straight forward, and guide to the meaning the poet want the readers to get. He structured the poem in short sentences to tell Leander’s story and them go straight to his story and make contrast that favored his position and experience. Furthermore, using punctuation in the poem helped in highlighting some points he wanted to make fancy or on the other hand, make some points less in value from what it should be. For example, adding a exclamation mark after stating Leader’s story of crossing the Hellespont and then adding another one after stating his story and experience which might look like a question to the audience to favor one experience or story over the other. He used some comas in some sentences which made contrast between his story elements and Leander’s

Finally, this poem was chosen by me because of the heroism and how the poet like to tell others about his achievement, even though he tried to downgrade others’ stories by making it less in importance and value. It is a good piece of poem about self esteem and for someone who believes in himself and his abilities even though he got a deformity as far as I concluded from what the poet wrote.