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| She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron
Poem Interpretation The author compares the beauty of this woman to the night, a summer night with no clouds, where we can clearly see all the stars. The woman is the first character while nature is here only as a scenery. Nature reinforces the woman's beauty. He talks about her eyes and hair, and we can tell she's still a young woman. She has a calm and serene expression on her face, she is very intelligent, she has no sins, she has a pure heart and sould. In the last stanza of this poem ("A heart whose love is innocent") is the proof that she's still a virgin, she has no lovers. Therefore, she's pure. The description of the ideal woman - and during that time a woman like this was very hard to find - is an ideal of the romantic poets' mind. The notion of individual imagination as the only significant interpreter of nature and humankind motivates writers such as Lord Byron. Carla Diana Cardoso, for Study of Texts - English, Translation course at ISLA Copyright by Didi Cardoso. This file is the author's own work. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. You may not reproduce it in any way without written permission from the author. |
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