Summary of “She Walks in Beauty”
A woman’s external beauty coupled with her inner beauty has been beautifully showcased in this poem. The woman is the poet’s cousin who he met at a party and was mesmerized by her beauty and wrote this poem as a tribute to her beauty. The various comparisons from nature and the sky that are given to the beauty of this woman exemplify her beauty really well.A parallel drawn between a cloudless starry night and the woman is an attempt to show the striking beauty of the woman which is just like stars shinning in the darkness of the night.Darkness has been contrasted with light to bring out the apparent yet mysterious beauty of the woman. Her beauty has the right proportion of the dark and the bright which suggests that…