She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Question 1

She Walks in Beauty
Person?
Structure?
Structure?

Answer 1

3rd, Male gaze, objectifying women
3 stanzas, Catalogue of attributes, admiration
Iambic tetrameter ABAB rhyme scheme, woman perfect harmony, heartbeat

Question 2

She Walks in Beauty
Context?

Answer 2

-Byron was romantic poet in Georgian era
-Married, had many affairs with men,women
-Published as lyrical poem to religious music

Question 3

She Walks in Beauty
5 quotes

Answer 3

‘She walks in beauty, like the night’
‘softly lightens o’er her face’
‘How pure, how dear their dwelling place’
‘smiles that win, the tints that glow’
‘A heart whose love is innocent!’

Question 4

She Walks in Beauty
‘She walks in beauty, like the night’

Answer 4

-Pronoun, nameless mysterious person
-Dynamic verb, the way she moves is beautiful
-Simile subverts convention, contrast to Shakespeare’s ‘a summers day’

Question 5

She Walks in Beauty
‘softly lightens o’er her face’

Answer 5

-Adverb, gentle, graceful movement, elegance
-Contrast to dark hair, more beautiful and mysterious

Question 6

She Walks in Beauty
‘How pure, how dear their dwelling place’

Answer 6

-Emphatic repetition, admiration and awe
-Now compliments her inner beauty, thoughts
-Affectionate adjective, precious

Question 7

She Walks in Beauty
‘smiles that win, the tints that glow’

Answer 7

-Focuses on specific features, won his love
-Jovial, good natured personality
-Semantic field of light, regal brilliance, vitality

Question 8

She Walks in Beauty
‘A heart whose love is innocent!’

Answer 8

-Synecdoche, whole woman, purity
-Not sexual adoration, pure and genuine
-Exclamatory sentence, climax, speaker is overwhelmed
-Final realisation that he has fallen in love