She walks in Beauty
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- Created on: 16-05-17 15:39
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- She Walks in Beauty
- Lord Byron
- Ideal Romantic
- notorious life
- left England due to a failed marriage, scandalous affairs and debt
- went to Italy and had an affair with the wife of an Italian nobleman
- fell for his cousin Margaret
- fell for her at a funeral but she was already married
- mad
- bad
- dangerous
- overarching beauty
- obsessive
- nature
- raised on a pedestal
- notorious life
- Anglo-Scottish
- friends with Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Shelley and he half sister whom he fathered a child with
- went on a 2 year tour of Mediterranean countries
- died of a fever in Greece whilst fighting for independence from Ottoman Empire
- Ideal Romantic
- structure
- 3 stanzas of sestets
- regular ABABAB scheme emphasises the woman walking and her perfection
- Iambic tetrameter used for Hebrew melodies
- form
- lyric
- designed to accompany music
- love, beauty and nature
- the more humans are exposed to nature the more beautiful they become
- speaker is the lover and poet himself
- merges both nature and woman's beauty but cocludes hers is superior
- poetic
- lyric
- stanza 1
- "she walks in beauty, like the night"
- the night is flawed next to the subject
- compliment- her beauty is endless
- extended description
- night is changing-not constant
- mourning
- haunting
- eerie
- haunting
- "of cloudless climes and starry skies"
- alliteration places an emphasis by comparison
- harsh consonant
- soft sibilance
- "dark and bright"
- opposing ideas show the contradictory and contasting beauty of this woman
- two opposing ideas are harmonious in this being
- opposing ideas show the contradictory and contasting beauty of this woman
- alliteration places an emphasis by comparison
- "tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies"
- enjambement reflects the excitement- the speaker cannot take a break
- too bright and rash
- mysterious night- day is too open, revealing
- amorous intentions, rendezvous at night between loves, secretive, passionate, thrilling
- "she walks in beauty, like the night"
- other poems
- Sonnet 116
- "on that cheek, and o'er that brow"
- beauty fades
- La Belle Dame
- bewitching beauty
- Non Sum Qualis
- obsessive love
- Sonnet 116
- Lord Byron
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