Published between 1812 and 1818, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long narrative poem by the English poet George Gordon, the Lord Byron. It is a poem about masculinity. In Byron's poem, the main character is portrayed as a dark brooding man, who doesn't like society and wants to escape from the world because of his discontent with it. It deals with the underdog and Military might. Byron uses gothic imagery to get sublime nature, representing adventure. Such as climbing mountains for sport. Previous to this climbing mountains had been thought of as being associated with evil. Instead this poem deals with engaging and conquering the dark side of nature. The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands.

(Note: The term childe was a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood.)