She walks in beauty

“She Walks in Beauty” In the poem “She Walks in Beauty,” the author Byron, concentrates his love poem around a beautiful woman and all of her marvelous features. To any reader this woman is betrayed as love at first sight, but in actuality it is his cousin. Byron has two contrasting sides of the women’s beauty through the use of light and dark. In the first sentence, he says “She walks in beauty, like …showed first 75 words of 267 total…

…showed last 75 words of 267 total…woman and still keeps a perfect balance within her. He uses darkness and light to create this balance. The poem’s meaning exists within the two opposing forces and the woman’s inner beauty. Without this his poem would just be an ordinary love poem with no meaning. Not only does the poem describe a woman’s physical beauty, but it also reveals her inner strengths. To the author, this is the perfect innocent woman.