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This article aims to examine how Byron’s Thyrza Poems depict the speaker’s perception of bereavement, his distress caused by the mortality and changeability of human affairs, and finally his vibrant search for resilient forces. Among Byron’s early works, the Thyrza cycle establishes the protagonist’s diverse recollections of past affection and his heavy heart, which are resolute in overcoming the deeply ingrained affliction in his mind. The author germinates, in the series of Thyrza odes, his later works charged with a variety of the speakers’ encountering adversities, and their exuberant reactions to such a tough struggle with freedom of will. The protagonists of the Thyrza poems prefigure how they reserve their painful hearts and simultaneously show a way of undertaking spiritual autonomy in order to be liberated from their current adversities. The paper also considers how Byron foreshadows their ironic consequence of such utmost endeavors.