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George Gordon Noel Byron's poem entitled, "She Walks In Beauty," plainly put,
is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features.
The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unnaccented syllable followed by an accented
syllable that allows for a rythm to be set by the reader and
can be clearly seen when one looks at a line:
She walks/ in beau/ ty like/ the night.
T.S. Eliot, an American poet criticizes Byron's work by stating the poem, "needs to be
read very rapidly because if one slows down the poetry vanishes
and the rhyme is forced" (Eliot 224). With this rhythm the reader
can, however, look deeprt in to the contents of Byron's poem and discover
a battle of two forces. The two forces involved in Byron's poem are the darkness
and light - at work in the woman's beauty, and also in the two
areas of her beauty - the internal and external. The poem appears to be
about a lover, but in fact was written about "Byron's cousin, Anne Wilmot, whom he
met at a party in a mourning dress of spangled black" (Leung 312). This fact, the black
dress that was brightened with spangles, helps the reader to understand the origin
of the poem. Byron portrays this, the mixing of the darkness and the light, not by
describing the dress or the woman's actions, but by describing her physical beauty as
well as her interior strengths. In the beginning of the peom, there is an image of darkness:
"She walks in beauty, like the night," but then the line continues to explain that the
night is cloudless and the stars are bright. So immediately the poem brings together its two
forces; light, and darkness.
What is so attractive about this woman.
haha i don't know, this was in the flash part of the brown eyes homepage, i saw it and was curious, and I have no idea why it was there haha. I typed it up because i was bored.
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