Diction In She Walks In Beauty

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Writers create and develop tone through the use of diction. Diction is important to a poet. In Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” the tone is evident immediately. He was among the most famous of the English ‘Romantic’ poets. George Gordon (Lord Byron), was also the most fashionable poet of his time. “She Walks in Beauty” is a poem written in 1813 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. It was one of the several poems to be set to Jewish times from the synagogue by Isaac Nathan. All references serve to reiterate the beauty and innocence of the woman being described.
In the summer of 1803, he fell so deeply in love with his distant cousin, the beautiful and engaged Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, that he disturbed his education for a term to be near her. His one-sided passion found expression in such poems as “Hills of Annesley” “The Adieu” “Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England” and “The Dream.” Years later he told Thomas Medwin that all his “fables about the celestial nature of woman” originated from “the perfection” his imagination created …show more content…

He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model. He is also a Romantic paradox: a leader of the era’s poetic revolution. He named Alexander Pope as his master; a worshiper of the ideal, he never lost touch with reality; a deist and freethinker, he retained from his youth a Calvinist sense of original sin. In January 1809, he took his seat in the House of Lords, published an anonymous satire, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, and embarked with Hobhouse on a grand tour (Poetry Foundation). In the year, 1813 Byron completed and had published six extremely popular verse tales, five of them influenced by his travels in Greece and Turkey, all in two months. Byron’s interest in publication had decreased, but he continued to support Hunt and to give manuscripts to The

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