Poetry- She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) Essays

Poetry- She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) Essays Poetry- She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) Paper Poetry- She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron) Paper Essay Topic: Poetry key themes the unobtainable/ideal/light and dark She Walks in Beauty published 1815, written to be set to music, supposedly about cousins wife, presence at a funeral- darkness does not detract from her beauty but accentuates it She walks in beauty: Structure, meter, significance 3 regular ABABAB sestets, iambic tetrameter, effortless as the recipients effortless grace and beauty significance of meter meter commonly found in hymns- associated with sincerity and simplicity- pure intentions She Walks in Beauty opens she walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all thats best of dark and bright/Meet in her aspect and her eyes Parallelism One shade the more, one ray the less,/Had half impaired the nameless grace/Which waves in every raven tress exterior expression are in line with her interior thoughts Where thoughts serenely sweet express