She walks in beauty
A
Lord Byron belongs to the younger group of romantic poets.
They represented the second flower of English romanticism, Byron produced his best poetry in Italy.
George Gordon Byron, (1789-1824) Byron was one of the most popular of romantic poets.
Byron was one who made an impact on the continent not only during his own day but even afterwards.
This was because of his personality and glamour.
Byron was influenced by the poets of the 18th century.
He ridiculed his own contemporaries.
This is why he is also called a ‘romantic paradox’.
Byron travelled widely. He captured the imagination of his readers.
A. His first two cantos of ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage’
made him famous.
B. Byron himself says; “I woke one morning and found
myself famous”.
His heroes were called, ‘Byronic Hero’ in his works we find humour, adventure sentiments pathos.
Thus his works produce a comical and satirical effect.
Byron was most egoistical as a poet he had a slipshod and careless style.
But his rhetorical style was admirable.
B
She Walks in Beauty is a short lyrical poem in the iambic treatment Byron wrote it in 1814.
This is one of his most famous works.
It is said that Byron was inspired by a lady at a party.
He was stuck by the unusual beauty.
The poet praises and seeks to capture the sense of the beauty of a particular woman.
The poet compares the beauty of women to a lovely night.
A night with a clear starry sky.
The poet goes on to say that the beauty is so balanced.
It seems like the meeting between darkness and light.
The poet says that a touch of more shade or even one ray of light would have greatly affected the beauty.
The beauty was unsurpassable.
There could be no comparison.
The beauty is in such transparency that the innocent feeling of her heart reflects on her face.
This adds to the beauty of the lady. “But tells of days in goodness spent”. The Beauty is rare.
It is incomparable. There could be no other women in this world with the same beauty.
The beauty of the women is simply majestic, “all that’s best of dark and bright”.
Beauty is a “nameless grace”. The poet says that the beauty has an air of divine and supernatural contribution.
The poet says how even one shade more or one shade less would have ‘half impaired her beauty.
The poet shows how the inner and outer beauty is balanced.
The alliteration mode used by the poet adds a charm to the lyrical poem, “cloudless climes and starry skies.
The rhyme scheme is (ab ab ab).
Here Byron, taking ‘beauty’ as his theme has successfully portrayed beauty.
Beauty with glowing features and eloquence.
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