The Line of Beauty

portrayed as vain and obsessed with their beauty. The speaker in “The Rape of the Lock” condemns the girl described, Belinda, for her obsession with appearances by mocking her through the use of hyperbole, for

of “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and Mark Twain, author of Two Ways of Seeing A River, explore the idea of beauty by putting their personal feelings into what they see. Both of these American authors use nature to interpret the ways of beauty into words. Frost and Twain go hand in hand with each other in the aspect of their diction. While Frost and Twain both use imagery to demonstrate fleeting beauty, frost includes time indicators, while Twain uses rhetorical questions. In both “Nothing Gold Can Stay

metaphor. An example : “you are like a red rose”, a red rose is a metaphor for beauty. Line 1-2: ‘’One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away.’’ The speaker and his love are at the beach (strand) and the speaker is in a romantic mood, because he writes her name in the sand. The waves wash the name away. Line 3: “Again I

Age ca. 600 BCE, Sappho, expresses the admiration of “Anactoria” and her commendable beauty. This poem, translated by Jim Powell, is an example of one of Sappho’s renowned lyric poetry, demonstrating the intricate practice of love and passion. Lyric poetry is the art of expressing the poet’s private emotions and affairs

The beauty of the sunset is the central theme in both poems; however, they each contain different ideas about sunset. For example, Dickenson, focuses more on the beauty of sunset comparing it to a housewife. In turn, Sandburg, compares sunset to a female dancer, and brings out the different kinds of ways the sun sets. In the poem, by Emily Dickenson she compares sunset to a housewife. The poem cites “She sweeps with many-colored brooms” [line 1-2], the quote is portraying the true beauty of a housewife’s

Consider the word “see” in line 606, as Lanval’s love enters the room she is immediately noticed. This prompt response to her entrance straightaway reveals the implications of her beauty and the importance it has on Lanval’s trial along with the male relation the females in this time period. Women are objectified to a certain extent yet also essential to the inner workings of society. This can also be observed in the context of this passage due to the fact that the queen made the accusations against

praises the endless and otherworldly beauty of a nameless woman, lamenting that Death will eventually take it, as he takes everything. However, there is more to this sonnet than it seems. While the aforementioned description is true, the rhyming couplet coupled with Shakespeare’s trademark mastery of language and wordplay create a completely different reading experience. It is its own self-fulfilling prophecy, as the promise to immortalize the sonnet’s subject’s beauty is upheld by the mere existence

sense of beauty in some way, symbolizing its true meaning. Beauty is along the lines of each of these authors and poets, but represented in various ways, showing that beauty has multiple meanings. Alongside the unique views shown through these authors’ lenses, they all come together to show what beauty can stand for. Also, what emerges the most within these written works is the notion of beauty and how it comes to realization in contrasting circumstances. Keats seems to find true beauty in everything;

Edgar Allan Poe and H.D. emphasize the beauty of the infamous Helen of Troy; however, the speakers’ attitudes differ as one praises and worships Helen while the other condemns her for her treachery and remains unmoved by her beauty. Although both poems discuss Helen of Troy, both speakers’ withhold different perspectives within the first stanza. In “To Helen” the speaker sets Helen on a pedestal as he uses the apostrophe “Helen, thy beauty is to me” (Poe, line 1). He emphasizes that he speaks to

and beauty, but sometimes the reader questions as to what is the writer really describing? It can be hard to distinguish between internal or physical beauty when being described in a love poem, especially when it is written with romantic imagery. William Shakespeare founding father of poetry gives a perfect example; in Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare the to a summers day” he uses metaphors and imagery to compare his lovers beauty and nature. He points outs a few imperfections about love, and line by line