Why She Walks In Beauty
Love and infatuation have been very popular topics in poetry for hundreds of years. Poets have tried to express their feelings in poetry by using various techniques and poetic language, such as similes, symbols, and imagery. One poem that does an excellent job of conveying the feeling of love is "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron. Byron is a poet of the romantic age which is often characterized by the subject matter of the poems. Like many other Romantic poets Byron concentrates on an individual object or person. In "She Walks in Beauty" the speaker express the love he has for a certain woman. The poem concentrates directly on this woman and lifts her up above all others showing that the speaker only cares for her. In order to show that the speaker is deeply in love with this one Byron uses several similes to compare her to the beauty of nature, which is another characteristic of Romantic poets. The first two lines of the poem read "She walks in beauty, like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies; ". This simile implies that the woman's beauty is as clear and she shines like bright stars in the night. The poe
hair. The nameless grace is a symbol of the woman's hair. This is shown through the raven's tress, since a tress is a strand or a lock of hair, and the raven is a very dark black bird. Next Byron personifies how her hair is placed. The speaker talks of the woman's hair being lightened by her face, and goes onto say "How pure, how dear their dwelling-place". This gives the woman's hair a human or even animal characteristic of having a dwelling place. The line shows that the hair is placed perfectly, as though it had picked its spot out, as a human would do for a dwelling-place. "She Walks in Beauty" was an excellent poem expressing the feeling of love someone has for a woman. Since the tone of the poem is very sincere, romantic, and thoughtful, it is much easier to believe in the words of the poem. Many of the word choices and descriptions of this poem make show that the woman touches his heart so much he sees every detail. The poetic tools, such as similie, metaphor, and imagery, used in this poem help the reader relate to the poem and the feelings it conveys. Byron did an excellent job of describing such a fantastic woman. Byron al
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