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The Dynamic Beauty in Byron’s Poem She Walks in Beauty

Author(s)

Xiuqin Huang

Affiliation(s)

School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou University of Software, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Abstract

She Walks in Beauty is Byron’s early short lyric, famous for its uniqueness of the aesthetic experience of showing the dynamic beauty of a young lady, being a representative works written in English Romantic period. This paper explores the essential part of the eternal ideals of beauty: the dynamic beauty. As a representative poet of Romanticism, Byron returns to nature and the plain humanity to seek the truth of the beauty in the nature constructed by a divine imagination. By emphasizing the eternal ideals of beauty which appeal to the human heart, the paper analyzes this kind of beauty through its dynamic aspects from three layers: the dynamic use of the words, the dynamic application of the meter and the dynamic image, revealing the dynamic, multi-layer aesthetic experience to reflect the core idea and charm of the poem in emblematic language.

Keywords

The Dynamic Beauty; The Verbs; the Meter; Image; She Walks in Beauty

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