Beginning the poem with the word ‘How’ as exclamation, rather than the introduction to a question starts the poem with a strong sense of admiration. Dickenson begins to show the reader the extent of her amazement with the splendour of the sunset as the exclamation of ‘How’, which is repeated at the start of the following two lines, gives a sense of speechlessness and spontaneity as she describes the dynamic nature of sunset. The use of ‘How’ also shows the reader that the response is un-premeditated and her response is of real, genuine emotion that can only flood through by means of exclamation. ‘How’ also gives a sense of spontaneous observation rather than detailed analysis of a scene allowing the speaker to simply tell of what she is seeing rather than through any over-embellished description. Throughout the poem Dickenson uses rather unusual description, perhaps personal to herself for example describing the sun as ‘Wizard Sun’.
The rhyme scheme of this poem is ababab, cdcdcd, efefef. The pairing of two rhyming sounds in each stanza is really helping with the poem, because the poem revolves around two forces; darkness and light. It also works with the two areas of the women’s beauty; the internal and the external beauty. The meter is also very regular, it is in iambic tetrameter. The first stanza describes the woman from a distant perspective; it is the moment he met her and the moment of the attraction.The poem opens with a line that doesn’t have punctuation.
Love is seen through an abstract way in Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty.” The poem is speaking of a woman’s inner beauty. He uses beautiful metaphors to describe a woman’s inner and outer beauty coming together in perfect harmony. Byron is doing nothing more than capturing the essence of a woman. Talking about a woman’s inner beauty that reflects her outer shell what Byron has done. Only a person who loves another can truly see their inner beauty.
“My Last Duchess is a masterpiece by Robert Browning. The poem opens with the Duke unveiling the portrait of his Duchess who apparently has left for her heavenly abode. “Looking as if she were alive”, this line tells the reader that this beautiful lady was history now. He explains to the messenger present during the unveiling that the lovely lady depicted on this portrait was his wife, the duchess who was an extraordinary woman, he goes on to explain that she actually had a very flirtatious nature, it did not need too much of an effort to see her beautiful smile . A small compliment or a cheap gift was enough to bring the blush on her cheeks, “Strangers like you that pictured countenance, the depth and passion of its earnest glance”.
That Jose chooses to sing a song about a weary life, obviously something she is unacquainted with, has to be ironic: in the Sheridan family, weariness and sorrow are merely lyrics to be mocked. Mansfield's exquisite use of imagery is as telling as her irony. For example, the flower imagery throughout the story serves to keep the reader reminded of the delicacy of Laura's world. The flowers are splendid, beautiful, and—what is not stated—short-lived. Laura, too, is beautiful, radiant, flower-like.
He claims that he loves to hear her voice, yet he says “music hath a far more pleasing sound.” He plays with the readers mind by complimenting and insulting the woman at the same time. Now the reader is not sure what to think at all. In the last lines of the sonnet, the ending couplet, Shakespeare makes it clear that it is indeed a love sonnet. He states that his love is “as rare/ As any She belied with false compare.”
1. Characteristic | Selected Poem Title: She walks in beauty | 2. Initial Response: What does this poem seem to be about? It describes a beautiful woman. | | Words: Were the words in this poem difficult or easy to understand?
The Beauty Within While first reading Lord Bryon’s, “She walks in beauty, like night” we have many different thoughts that cross our mind-The first of course is love. The theme of this poem is Love, Which is easily recognized. What isn’t- is the unique way how Lord Bryon talks about both this woman’s inner beauty as well as her physical beauty. This feature is what makes this poem so alluring and what makes many women only hope they are thought of in this fashion. While reading Lord Bryon’s poem we notice many different literary influence such as Simile, Symbolism, metaphors as well as tone.
Rebecca Hernandez Mr. Thompson AP English September 6, 2013 In Sonnet 130 by, William Shakespeare, the tone of the first twelve lines contrast the tone of the last two lines, and the theme of this entire work is recognized because of this difference. In this sonnet the woman is not compared to a pleasant appearance, but is being praised for her flaws. Shakespeare presents the turn in the final couplet by stating that no matter how much is wrong with his mistress; he still loves her and thinks she is beautiful. The comparisons usually given in other love poems and sonnets are literally impossible because it is a false image compared to Sonnet 130. In the first twelve lines, the sonnet mocks the form, content, and typical petrarchan metaphors by representing a speaker who decides to tell the truth about his mistress’s appearance.
However, as the poem ends, and the flea’s death is meaningless as is the woman’s virginity, thus the speaker and the woman should make love. Also, Donne wrote of real love poems such as The Sun Rising in which he represents the love between the speaker and woman as the universe. “Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.” (Donne, The Sun Rising, lines 29-30). He gives significance to the woman as she is the states, and the speaker is the princes, and together they create their powerful