She Walks in Beautly Like the Night

For some reason my computer does not allow me to comment and I was not able to do this at school so here is my response...(:

The images that Byron uses in this poem is that of the night and the skies. The sky can bring so many different feelings. The stars in the sky show that there is more out there than we think and just a glance at night doesn't always clearly show beauty. We sometimes have to look deeper into not only night, but life. Normally, when a person thinks of night, darkness and danger come to mind. Byron suggests that its more than that.

A simile in this poem was the very first line. "She walks in beauty like the night." This shows that night does have beauty like a woman. Also, the woman was wearing a dark black gown. This shows that although she wore something dark like night, beauty was still evident. A metaphor is also shown through the first line in the use of the night. Beauty and night seem sometimes to be totally different, but in reality are much the same. The night is very dark and mysterious like that of a woman and love. When walking in the dark, many times without light, you don't know where you are going. This is the same with love. When you find someone, you cannot predict what will happen in the future, you can only hope and keep going.

This poem captures the romantic spirit because it compares the beauty of the woman to that of the night and nature itself. Sometimes the significance of nature is not evident right away so one must use knowledge and learn from nature. The last line says "A heart whose love is innocent!" This shows that the woman has a good heart and that you can find good anywhere, even in the night. Although the woman may be mysterious and sometimes appear to have darkness in her, her intentions are good and her love is innocent.