Beauty of the Night

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Recommended: Analyze the elements of romanticism in the poem She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Beauty of the Night

He moved along the beach, his long graceful strides kicking sand behind him. His

movement was so quick, that in combination with his white coat, he was nothing more

then a streak of lightening on a perfectly clear day. Many times, in order to emphasize a

feature, poets compare objects to nature. In Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty,” the

poet is enraptured by woman’s beauty and compares her to the beauty of the dark and

light.

Lord Byron was inspired by his cousin by marriage, Lady Wilmot Horton. She

arrived at a party wearing a black mourning dress strewn with sparkling materials on it.

The sparkle and darkness of the dress must have caught his eyes, for in lines one and two

he describes the lady in the poem “like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies.”

The sparkle of the dress reminded him of the stars in the sky and the beauty of it. Not

only did he see the beauty of dark in her but also light as described in line three and four.

Also in line one he states “She walks in beauty like the night” meaning she is elegant,

graceful, and has poise. This lady is “all that’s best of dark and bright/Meet in her aspect

and her eyes.” She is “mellowed to that tender light/Which heaven to gaudy day denies,”

(5,6) therefore in the light of the night she has no glare. During the day the sun shine a

glare on objects blinding your vision, but when Byron looked at her no glare existed.

A perfect balance between light and dark is said in lines seven and eight, “One

shade the more, one ray the less,/Had half impaired the nameless grace.” No matter if

she is in the light or in the shade, or the mood she is in she will always be graceful,

beautiful, and elegant. Her hair is black as a “raven” (9) with gentle waves in every

strand that “softly lightens o’er her face” (10). “Where thoughts serenely sweet

express/How pure, how dear their dwelling place.” That is the essence of purity and

innocent of her mind, heart, body, and soul. Corruption and evil has never crossed her

path. Not only is she gorgeous on the outside but also on the inside.

On her cheek a natural glow occurs so “eloquent(ly)” (14). “The smiles the win”

(15) she has. “But tell the days in goodness spent,/A mind a peace with all below,/A

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