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Context
* Romantic poet and first ‘celebrity’ * Life was unconventional and adventurous * Inspired by seeing a distant relative at a party * Romantic era: emotional and subjective view o love
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Language
* ‘She walks in beauty’ * Figurative language * Ability to do what others can’t
\ * ‘like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies’ * Simile * Natural imagery creates immediate admiration
\ * ‘her eyes’, ’cheek’, ‘brow’, ‘smiles that win’ * Blazon * Traditional method to show the deepness of love
\ * ‘One shade more, one ray less’ * Antithesis * Intricate balance in beauty
\ * ‘Starry skies’, ‘serenely sweet express’ * Alliteration, sibilance * Adds to lyrical nature and sense of harmony
\ * ‘heaven to gaudy day denies’ * Religious language
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Form
* Lyric poem in the perspective of unknown
* Focuses is completely on women
\ * Iambic tetrameter * Builds fixation with the subject
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Structure
* 3 stanza, six lines long * Usually reserved for hums * Reflect religious imagery and content
\ * Strict structure and categorisation of thought * Speaker careful with how they articulate
\ * Metrical inversion in line 4 * Highlight the opposing forces that meet