| Front | Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty Explore: x5 She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies |
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| Back | •Cataphoric reference 'she', while a specific woman, seems to extend to encompass the inaccessible and the ideal - there is an aura of beauty when she walks => coincides with popular conception of beauty as being radiant which is particularly captured in the use of the present tense •'night' simile time of spiritual darkness as she mourns passed love one => does not distract from her beauty, but instead accentuates it - it's a reference to Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” => idealised love •Alliterative Cs for a pathetic fallacy (typical Romantic poetry) generates a slow pace as he steps back to admire her •disyllabic adjs 'cloudless' and 'starry' long vowels => reiterates slow pace for his awestruck state •faultless depiction of faultless 'clime' and celestrial imagery may indicate a romantic appeal |
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