She Walks In Beauty

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Term Paper Title	She Walks In Beauty
# of Words	978
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.91

"She Walks in Beauty"
George Gordon Noel Byron's poem titled, "She Walks in Beauty," plainly put, is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features.  The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable that allows for a rhythm to be set by the reader and can be clearly seen when one looks at a line:
She walks / in beau / ty like / the night.
T.S. Eliot, an American poet criticizes Byron's work by stating the poem, "needs to be read very rapidly because if one slows down the poetry vanishes and the rhyme is forced" (Eliot 224).  With this rhythm the reader can, however, look deeper into the contents of Byron's poem and discover a battle of two forces.  The two forces involved in Byron's poem are the darkness and light- at work in the woman's beauty, and also the two areas of her beauty-the internal and the external.  The poem appears to be about a lover, but in fact was written about "Byron's cousin, Anne Wilmot, whom he met at a party in a mourning dress of spangled black" (Leung 312).  This fact, the black dress that was brightened with spangles, helps the reader to understand the origin of the poem.  Byron portrays this, the mixing of the darkness and the light, not by describing the dress or the woman's actions, but by describing her physical beauty as well as her interior strengths.  In the beginning of the poem, the reader is given the image of darkness:  "She walks in beauty, like the night," but then the line continues explaining that the night is cloudless and the stars are bright.  So immediately the poem brings together its two opposing forces that are at work, darkness and light.
     In lines three and four Byron emphasizes that the unique feature of the woman is her ability to contain opposites within her; "the nest of dark and bright/meet" in her.  The joining together of the darkness and the light can be seen in her "aspect," or appearance, but also in her "eyes."  In this case, "the woman's eyes aren't to be associated with a physical feature, but more as an internal aspect of her: the eyes reveal her heart"(Martin 24).  L.C. Martin, from the University of Nottingham, also writes that Byron, "emphasizes the unique feature of this woman to contain opposites within her,"(24) therefore agreeing with the concept that not only is there a struggle between the darkness and the light, but also within the woman.
     Beginning with line five, the word "meet" is emphasized again as ...

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