She Walks in Beauty

She Walks in Beauty

  • Submitted By: jennayy808
  • Date Submitted: 10/03/2008 3:45 PM
  • Category: English
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She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the Lord Byron speaks of the physical beauty of a woman; a female who he encountered. This encounter leads him to visualize a great definite physical image of her so he began to speak of this unusual attractiveness. A special quality in her was being able to be identified with the heaven. The poem “She Walks in Beauty” came by as an inspiration to the Lord Byron. This occurred at an event attended by Lord Byron where he meets his cousin who is the woman; he speaks about in the poem. The poem speaks through the usage of imagery. The poem is highly rhythmic with meaningful tones. The female in this poem is evaluated in terms of the physical world. For example, Lord Byron does not provide a detailed appearance of the woman. She is instead shown responding to the world around her.
The first couple of lines can be confusing if not read properly. Often, the reader stops at the end of the first line where there is no punctuation. This is an enjamped line, meaning that it continues without pause onto the second line. That she walks in beauty like the night may not make sense as night represents darkness. As the line continues, “the night is a cloudless one with bright stars to create a beautiful mellow glow.” The first two lines bring together the opposing traits of darkness and light that are at play throughout the three verses. The remaining lines of the first verse utilize another set of enjamped lines that tell us that her face and eyes combine all that’s best of dark and bright. No reference is made here or elsewhere in the poem of any other physical features of the lady. The focus of the vision is upon the details of the lady’s face and eyes which reflect the mellowed and tender light. She has a remarkable quality of being able to contain the opposites of dark and bright.
The third and fourth lines are not only enjamped, but the fourth line begins with an irregularity in the meter called a metrical substitution. The fourth...

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