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
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