She Walks In Beauty

Both of these poems portray two views of individuals by society. The girl in The Barbie Doll was healthy and intelligent, yet everyone still focused on her fat legs and big nose. This led the girl to do as much as she could to please those around her. This outlook can be compared to how women are portrayed in our society today. As we, women, look through magazines we are greeted by tiny women with big chests. Some of us feel that this is the way all women should look. Those who feel this way will do all that they can do to look like these models. Many women in our society are anorexic and bulimic, could this be because of society's portrayal of women? I believe so.

Despite the achievements of women in many different fields, society still attempts to limit women to certain roles. Furthermore, in the poem, women “… are defined […] by what [they] never will be,” (lines 19 - 21); once again, the author claims that women are defined by what they are unable to do because of gender bias. Instead of being given the chance to be influential, they are continually limited to staying at home or doing jobs “meant for women.” Finally, Boland tells the tutor that women “…were never on the scene of crime,” (lines 27 - 28). This serves as a metaphor for how women are never allowed to do important jobs; instead, they are left at the sidelines due to the repeatedly ignored restrictions placed on women by our gender-biased society.

Lord Byron, a romantic author from the 18th century was a man who was considered as a “player”, a man who was always with multiple women. In his lifetime Byron wrote many stories, three of those stories were, She Walks In Beauty, Apostrophe To The Ocean, and Don Juan. In those three stories Lord Byron indicates very important messages for each.

of Woolbridge’s actions for the sake of her reputation. The poem has a major theme of Women

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote both poems. Brooks often wrote about the plights of minorities and those in poverty. She lived in an apartment in Chicago and would write poems about those around her. "I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street," Ms. Brooks once said. "I lived in a small second-floor apartment at the corner, and I could look first on one side and then the other. There was my material" (M. Watkins, 2000). She drew her material from watching those around her. You can clearly understand how her observations helped her write these two poems because of how both the poems were about the plights of those in poverty.

Louis Bogan deals with the political issue of feminism as she criticizes women, the main target of the poem, as she writes about their shortcomings and passive state through irony. During her time, women were oppressed, marginalized and were ultimately silenced by their gender. Bogan criticizes the dullness and passionless state of women at that time in hope that they might change. Bogan begins to criticize by saying that women lack “wilderness” and that they are “content in the tight hot cell of their hearts” (1-4, Page 612). Although association with being wild is negative and unladylike, Bogan figuratively suggests that women have no adventure

Throughout this poem, the view the readers have of the female characters is constantly challenged seeing as both sisters were “Like two blossoms on one stem, Like two flakes of new-fall'n snow, Like two wands of ivory”, but were both portrayed as “maids” with different ideologies. Hence the reason

During the romantic period, society judged women on their beauty, something that they have no control over. These judgments soon became standards that women had to live with. Beauty standards that made women feel as if beauty was the only thing that was important. But writers at this time realized that these standards were unfair and unjust, and needed changing, so that’s what they sought out to do. The societal norm of judging women based on their beauty is not appropriate and then affects women’s depiction in literature along with the literature’s tone to either be more satirical, as seen is A Vindication of the Rights of Women, or more rebellious, as seen in Northanger Abbey, but both working for the same common goal, to change these beauty standards.

When reading the title of Wordworth’s poem, “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” my first impression was that of a old hag living in a secluded and dark cavern or forest. Perhaps she is someone who is misunderstood or in actuality just more of an introverted individual. Who is this “she”, referenced in the title?

In both of Larkin’s poems he presents individuals who are shown as oppressed, and controlled by women, although in a different way. The women have different relationships with the men as

Lord Byron personified heaven in the sixth line. Heaven cannot deny as for those who do not believe in higher power there is nothing behind the clouds except space. Since Lord Byron wrote his poem for secular readers, heaven in this case is personified. This personification helps the author to create tragic mood, and provides something else’s opinion about the lady and her personality. Poet also uses personification when he talks about woman’s smile, in the sixteenth line Lord Byron incarnate it. “Smiles that win” serves as an emotional exaggeration that was intended to describe beautiful smile that can earn anyone’s attention. He used that personification so the reader will have in mind that the lady is so beautiful that would conquer anyone’s

The Lady of Shalott, one of the most well known poems about beauty is an allegory, a story that contains a literal and a hidden meaning. Parallelism of both meanings can be seen throughout the poem. For example, the lady of Shalott represents the artist and Shalott represents the artist’s shadow world. This poem has greatly influenced other poems related to beauty and has become one of the most discussed subjects in the literal world. Although the poem itself is unrealistic, the perspective of beauty presented at that time is realistic. The writer attained this by using literal device – anaphor, simile and symbolism. “The lady of Shalott” is emphasized and extensively used numerous times at the beginning of the verse. In this case, the usage of anaphor reinforces the meaning of beauty of Lady Shalott and how she views the world inside and outside of the tower. “The gemmy bridle glitter’d free, like to some branch of stars we se’(Tennyson).

This stanza tells about a woman who is described to be very beautiful. The writer writes about her beauty and how she is compared to a beautiful night sky with cloudless climes and starry skies. She is described to be a part of nature as if it is mentioned within these

* Her beauty is compared to "night." This seems strange – night is dark, right? Aren't beautiful women usually compared to "a summer's day"? (That would be Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, in case you were wondering).

“She Walks in Beauty” is a great little poem written by Lord Byron (George Gordon) which is written in iambic tetrameter, this specific meter usually found in hymns are associated with sincerity, and simplicity. iambic tetrameter is a great choice in my opinion, it fits perfectly with the text. Bryson writes this poem about Robert Wilmot’s wife, Mrs Wilmot, Byron really tries to convey the love the speaker feels towards a stunning women walking with her own aura of beauty. The author speaks about how the poem occurred when he attended an event to meet his cousin which is the woman. This encounter then led him to visualize a vivid image of her so he begins to speak of he stunning beauty. The author compares her beauty to the stars clearly visible in a dark, cloudless night.