She walks in beauty

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  Lyric - a short poem intended to be set to music, conveying the speaker's inner thoughts and feelings

  ABAB rhyme scheme
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  Lord Byron - aristocrat with lots of high profile affairs

  Romantic poet

  Romanticism rejected the idea of industrialisation

  Arguably written about Lady Wilmot Who was a woman in mourning

  Objectification is ultimately inevitable
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  'She walks in beauty , like the night
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  Impersonal pronoun 'she' removes identity of the subject immediately makes her voiceless

  
  

  Removal of identity further exemplifies this objectification action as the speaker only values the subject for her outward beauty

  
  

  Hyperbolic natural imagery (typical convention of Romantic poetry- idealisation of the subjects' beauty
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  'One shade the more, one ray the less that bald impaired the nameless grace
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  Syntactic parallels : Speaker solely values the subject's beauty - commodification imagery/commodifies her

  Places her on a pedestal insinuating that her physical perfection is incomprehensible a slight change could potentially ruin this perfection
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  'So soft, so calm yet so eleoquent
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  Alluring asyndetic sibilant listing melodramatically encompasses subject's beauty
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  Byron admired and appreciated Greek mythology, goddesses and beauty

  Poem adheres to typical feminine characterisations and idealised romance

  Desire- perhaps unrequited love
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  Fischer: Romantic Love is an Obsession
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  Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon Byron, was an English poet and politician, best known for his role as a leading figure of the Romantic literary movement. His work included epic poems such as Don Juan and poetry collections such as Hebrew Melodies, both of which proved popular and influential during his time, the latter of which included

  'She Walks in Beauty. Born to a British army officer and his heiress wife, Byron was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and spent part of his childhood in Scotland. Byron's life was considered adventurous and unconventional compared to his contemporaries, through which he achieved celebrity status. He was also a key subject of discussion in regards to his personal life, most notably a well known alleged affair with his half sister. He lived and worked across Europe, in particular Italy, and later fought in Greek War of Independence. Many of his works are inspired by his travels, and he eventually died while fighting with the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire. He has remained hugely influential, with several literary tropes and phrases, such as the Byronic hero finding their roots in his work, serving as an example of his lasting influence on English literature.