<adj.all> Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
Muse \Muse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Musing}.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See {Morsel}, and cf. {Amuse}, {Muzzle}, n.] 1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. ``Thereon mused he.'' --Chaucer.
He mused upon some dangerous plot. --Sir P. Sidney.
2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. --Daniel.
3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson.
Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See {Ponder}.
"Nobody in their old age lies in bed musing about his second love," Tsongas observes.
Imagine Bobby musing: "I miss Pam so terribly.
'That is no longer our policy,' he notes, musing: 'It's more complicated than that.' The new policy document was debated at a crucial policy conference at the end of last month.
On Wednesday night at a cocktail party in the City, a finance director of one of Britain's largest banks was musing about the last few years of Mr Brian Pitman as chief executive of Lloyds.
It is no more than a 'musing on life' in three parts.
It is a musing on the tenuousness of memory and the delicacy of human relations, and its pleasures lie in the ever-shifting suggestions of meaning and counter-meaning that accumulate as it unfolds.
While he is still overly fond of musing aloud about the problem, most of what he has to say is restrained and sensible.
"I can't understand why anyone would be interested in studying something so removed from human existence," he says, musing momentarily on medieval cathedral windows.