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What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

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  1. speaker describing the physical appearance of this woman - beauty gives him power
  2. she has no power
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1 - ‘latest face, so __’

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effortless - effortlessly beautifyul + pleasence and ease + replaceable

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1 - ‘your beauty had no home till __’

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then - her beauty was worthless until he saw her, as she has to belong to someone

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1 - ‘precious __, recognise my look, and do not turn again’

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vagrant - oxymoron + imperitive = suggests he is rescuing her + demanding she should look soley upon him

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5
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2 - ‘on a __ level’

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useless - she has no worth or power, without her beauty

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1 - ‘I contain your current grace, you my __’

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judgment - her worth is enirely dependant on him, as he holds the power over her beauty

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2 - ‘the statue of your __ walk?’

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beauty - personification = if she changes/loses her beauty, she also loses her worth

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