Analysis of She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the author speaks of the physical beauty
of a woman; a female who the author encountered. This encounter lead him to visualize a
great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal
attractiveness. A special quality in her was being able to be identified with the heaven.
Beautiful like the stars and clearly visible as a cloudless night.
The poem ?She Walks in Beauty? came by as an inspiration to the author. This
occurred at an event attended by the author where he meet his cousin which is the woman
the author speaks about in the poem.
The author lord Byron wrote this poem which is found in the Hebrew Melodies.
This publication is found with many other lyrics completed in 1815.
The poem speaks through the usage of imagery. The poem is highly rhythmic with
meaningful tones. Essentially the female in this poem is evaluated in terms of the physical world. For example, the author does not provide a detailed appearance of the woman. She is instead shown responding to the world around her.
George Gordon was born in London in 1788. Gordon was the son of Captain
John ?Mad Jack? Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. The next
ten years were difficult for George. One of the reasons was because of his clubfoot. The
second reason was because of his mother displaced resentment against his father onto him,
and George Gordon had later been tended by a Calvinist nurse whom awakened his
In 1798 his great-uncle the fifth Baron Byron, died childless, and just after his
tenth birthday Byron inherited his title. In 1801 Byron was sent to school at Harrow; in
the same year he met his half- sister Augusta. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in
?Byron first published volume, ?Hours of Idleness,? appeared in 1807, when he
was nineteen; the lofty pose he struck in announcing himself as Lord Byron? (The Penguin
Group, 1). Then he took his seat in the house of lords that same year, and then departed
on a grand tour through most of Europe, there he began ?Chilled Harold?s Pilgrimage.?
?Byron returned to London in July 1811, but too late to see his mother, before she
died?(The Penguin Group, 2). ?After having returned from exotic travels, he became a
figure of force and he followed his success with a series of ?Eastern? tales that added to his aura: one of them, The Corsair 1814, written in ten days, sold ten thousand copies on the day of publication?(The Penguin Group, 2). Hebrew Melodies 1815, contains one of Byron?s most famous lyrics, which is ? She Walks in Beauty?. After having a relationship with his half-sister Augusta, and presuming that her daughter Medora was his, Byron proposed to Annabella Milbanke. ?They married in January 1815; their daughter Augusta Ada was born at the end of the year, but a few weeks latter Annabella left Byron to live with her parents, amid...