She Walks in Beauty

'She walks in Beauty'

• She illustrates distance between the poet and his subject
• Also that she is unnamed so he could have given the poem to many women
• Walks in beauty suggests she embodies beauty

• Time of the Romantic movement
• Byron saw a lady at a party in a mourning gown
• She was 'out of bounds' because she was in mourning
• Byron was famous for having many relationships.

'She walks in beauty like the night/of cloudless climbs and starry skies'

• Thirs person keeps the focus on the women and shows he is obssesesd 
• 'she' and 'her' illustrtate the distance from her

Simile;'like the night/ of cloudless climbs and starry skies' 

pretty image but not romantic, night could refere ro her black dress, 

Antithesis: S1 'night' 'light' S2 'shade' 'ray' creates rhythm and suggests she is perfect because she is light and dark

Semantic field - physical features; 'eyes' 'face' 'cheek' brow' his affection is superficial

Religious imagery/personification: 'which heaven to gaudy day denies' she is pure and uattainable

Rhythm: 'one shade the more, one ray the less' balanced with four syllables illustrating she is perfcetion

Sibilance:'thoughts serenely sweet express' draws attention to her perfect thoughts

Punctuation: 'and on that cheek, and on that brow/so soft, so calm, yet eloquent!' commas cretae breathlessness

Stanza 3

• First three lines are her physical appearance and the next three areher character showing her perfect balance between her physical and psycological beauty
• Iambic tetrameter and definite rhyme scheme creates flow mimiking her grace
• It was meant to be set to religious music as it is classed as a lyric showing her spiritual effect