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On which image is this poem, “Don Juan” by Lord Byron, based?

a careless burglar

a dusty desert

a royal palace

an Egyptian pyramid

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The answer is An Egyptian pyramid
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The poem, “Don Juan” by Lord Byron is based on an Egyptian pyramid. Option D is correct.

"What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt’s King Cheops erected the first pyramid … thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid: But somebody … Burglariously broke open the coffin’s lid: Let not a monument give you … hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops."

This poem, by Lord Byron is based on an image of an Egyptian pyramid, more specifically, the one from King Cheops.

Don Juan is a satiric poem based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, describing Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women.

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