She Walks in Beauty Quotes and links

Question 1

‘Like the night’

Answer 1

Unconventional simile (metaphysical conceit?)
- Implies uniqueness, intriging, mysterious beuty of night

Question 2

‘Cloudless climes’ ‘Starry skies’

Answer 2

• Childish. cliched metaphoric alliteration + enjambement

- Wave of beauty, incomprehendeble awe

Question 3

‘One shade more / one ray less’

Answer 3

Antithetical
Balance shows HARMONY + Perfection

ALso implies a woman can be ruined?

Question 4

‘Nameless grace’ ‘She’

Answer 4

• oBjectifies?

- Observer does not know woman’s name so how can he be so in love with her?

Question 5

‘Waves in every raven tress’

Answer 5

• Assonant
• Repeated rhythmic waves -> melifluos perfection

Womans pefection constantly linked with nature conveying beuaty and power of nature

Question 6

‘Thoughts serenely sweet express’

Answer 6

• Soft. flowing sibilance

- Innocence, calm, beauty, grace, EFFORTLESS

Question 7

‘So soft, so calm yet eloquent’

Answer 7

• Sibilance conveys effortless goddess beauty
  Veneration?

Physiognomy
Assesment of persons character by their appearance

Question 8

‘Innocent!’

Answer 8

• Most important factor
• After procalaiming love for whole poem, willing to throw this away if not innocent

REALLY HE IS NO RADICAL!

Question 9

Link to?

Answer 9

A wif in london
She walks in beauty = love is a passtime

Ozymandias (Power)

Question 10

A wife in London quotes

Answer 10

'A wife'
'Tawny vapour'
'The worm now knows'
'Home planned jaunts'
'Fresh-firm'
'Highest feather'
'A new love they would learn'