She walks in beauty
- Created by: Abbie Altoft
- Created on: 16-05-18 21:12
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- She walks in beauty
- Themes
- Apperance
- The opposing forces of darkness and light to describe beauty
- Beauty of nature
- Tone
- Romantic
- Calm
- Love struck
- Subject
- An analysis of the many facets that come together to form a beautiful women. The poem breaks downs a woman's beauty by description of physical, spiritual and intellectual traits.
- Context
- A British poet, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
- The poem was written by Bryon in response to seeing his cousin, Lady Wilmot Horton.
- The women is unnamed in the poem and she seems to unobtainable. She's really quite striking, and the speaker compares her to lots of beautiful but dark things like "night" and "starry skies". The second stanza uses contrast between day and night to describes her beauty.
- Themes
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