Front | Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty Explore: x3 Or softly lightens o'er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express How pure, how dear their dwelling place. |
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Back | •Her external beauty is an expression of her thoughts of goodness and peacefulness - both pure and dear •'softly...serenely sweet express' (some adverbs) sibilance is almost supernatural, used to replicate the hum of night time, and thus her epiphereal quality •'pure' idealised, mystical + angelic image |
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