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    Explication of “She Walks in Beauty” Lord George Gordon Byron was born on the 22nd of January 1788, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest British poets. Byron was one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement in early 19th century England, which resulted in the Byron’s sexual antics becoming just as notable as his poetry. In 1813 Byron wrote one of his most famous pieces work She Walks in Beauty. It is widely accepted that Byron wrote this poem after he met Anne Beatrix Wilmot, who was

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    Byron, was an English poet and one of the most famous poets of the romantic era. Romanticism was one of the most influential poetic movements, which brought Lord Byron into the literary forefront. Although he has many famous literary works, She Walks in Beauty is one of his most favourable poems. The poem was inspired by a woman wearing a mourning dress whilst at a ball. Love is the overarching theme, focusing mainly on adoration and captivating love. This is seen by the overwhelming sense of his

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    author of the poem “She Walks In Beauty” uses lots of imagery and connotative diction to express his complex unspoken love for a beautiful girl that walks in beauty. Using words like eloquent and dwellings to set a certain mood, so the reader gets a feel of what he is feeling as he wrote the poem itself. In the short poem of "She Walks In Beauty", imagery is used in the style of love and nature to describe the beauty of “she”. In stanza one Lord Byron says “ she walks in beauty, like the night of

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    poetic devices they use to describe love. In both the love poem “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron and the love song “Just the Way You Are” by Khari Cain, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, and Khalil Walton poetic devices are used to describe love for a woman. While Cain, Lawrence, Levine. Mars,and Walton in“Just the Way You Are” use hyperbole and repetition to express love in their song, Lord Byron in“She Walks in Beauty” more effectively uses simile and juxtaposition express love in his

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    it. Or, they can state it and give descriptive details about their viewpoint. Lord Byron does this in his poem “She Walks In Beauty”. Through the uses of details, diction, and language, Byron is able to create a passionate tone throughout the poem when describing the beauty of the woman. The beginning of the poem uses a great deal of romantic details to put emphasis on the beauty of the woman that is described in Byron’s poem. The details used by Byron focuses on the physical features of the

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    Explication of She Walks in Beauty Many Romantic poets embrace the concept of self -expression through the use of imagination to convey their personal visions of love and life. The power of emotion is evident in Lord Byron's poems. It can be possible that light can be emitted through the darkness of night. In his poem, "She Walks In Beauty", Lord Byron epitomizes the balance between two opposing forces. The two forces involved are the darkness and the light at work in a woman's beauty both internal

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    In the poem "She walks in Beauty" By Lord Byron; Byron presents a passionate tone through the use of stylistic elements such as poetic and cultured language, euphonious diction and elaborate and loving details. Through this Byron declares his deep and intense feelings for this woman's beauty. Byron not only confesses his thoughts and feelings for her, but he makes the reader experience through his writing the same emotions that he is experiencing. He gives the readers the as much insight of who

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    Analysis of Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty”      Lord George Gordon Byron was most notorious for his love affairs within his family and with Mediterranean boys. Since he had problems such as incest and homosexuality, he did not mind writing about his love for his cousin in “She Walks in Beauty”. Byron wrote the poem after he left his wife and England forever. Byron made his own trend of personality, the idea of the ‘Byronic Hero’. “Byron’s influence on European poetry, music

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    Emily Dickinson’s “Much Madness is divinest Sense-” and Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty,” expressing the conceptual idea that truth comes through perception and evaluation. In regards to the theme presented

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    Find Your Fight Most people would argue that there is a constant battle between darkness and light, but in George Gordon, Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty,” he explores the possibility that the two can coexist inside of a person. Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” In this world, everyone just wants to be understood. Poetry can make people feel like they are not alone because someone else was able to bring life to his or

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