She Walks in Beauty SS Flashcards
1
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‘She walks in Beauty’
A
- indicates that because this women is the epitome of beauty, everything around her is rendered beautiful
2
Q
‘like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies’
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- enjambement suggests that the speaker has much to say about her beauty
- ‘cloudless’ indicates that this is when the night is perfect because it is unobstructed (just like the woman)
- alliteration makes verse sound satisfying and supports idea of perfection
3
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‘mellowed to that tender light’
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- ‘mellow’ evokes idea of gentleness and beauty (not too bright, perfect equilibrium of light and dark)
- you can zoom in on ‘tender’ and ideas or sensitive to touch and kind as well as the equilibrium idea but don’t do both
4
Q
‘One shade the more, one ray the less/Had half impaired the nameless grace’
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- brings attention to idea of equilibrium as the women is so perfect, the smallest change in light will corrupt her beauty
- ‘grace’ deifies her to seem blessed by God
- ‘nameless’ beauty transcends idea of names
5
Q
her face is ‘Where thoughts serenely sweet express’
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- sibilance connotes eloquence and softness, underpinned by ‘serenely’
- she is as beautiful on the inside as the outside (‘sweet’)
6
Q
‘How pure, how dear their dwelling-place’
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- ‘dwelling place’ refers to her mind
- highlights the perfection and purity of her mind
- ‘How’ emphasises the intensity and profoundness of thoughts
7
Q
tricolon of ‘cheek’, ‘brow’, ‘smiles’ and ‘so soft, so calm, yet eloquent’
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- physical aspects of her beauty with mental aspects of her beauty
- emphasises how her inner beauty is reflected in her appearance
8
Q
‘a heart whose love is innocent!’
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- ends on climactic note ‘!’
- exclaims her perfection
- there is no sin, only purity
9
Q
4th quote ‘Which heaven to gaudy day denies’
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- in a dull day only she and heaven can permit change
- only heaven can emit the same type if light that she can, deified
