Starter quiz
- What does 'enchanting' mean?
- a feeling of great wonder
- delightfully-charming or attractive ✓
- to be filled with love for someone
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- The description of the woman in Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty' suggests a __________ attraction.
- superficial ✓
- meaningful
- deep
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- The literary movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which focused on the beauty of the natural world and emotion over logic is known as ______.
- 'Romanticism' ✓
- Byron, writer of 'She Walks in Beauty', was famed for his very public ______ life, including his many affairs with women.
- 'private' ✓
- If something is 'gaudy' it is...
- dark and mysterious
- excessively bright ✓
- bright and beautiful
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- Complete the quote from Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty': "She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and ______ skies".
- 'starry' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the keywords to their definitions.
- alluring⇔powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating ✓
- gaudy⇔extravagantly-bright in a tasteless way ✓
- aura⇔a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a person or thing ✓
- embody⇔to represent a quality or an idea exactly. ✓
- objectify⇔to treat a person like a tool rather than as a human being ✓
- In stanza 1 of 'She Walks in Beauty' Byron compares the woman to a...
- starry night ✓
- a bright day
- a goddess
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- In 'She Walks in Beauty', Byron compares the woman to a raven. Why might this be?
- it could suggest that her beauty is unique ✓
- the speaker can see the darkness inside of her
- the speaker may feel drawn to the woman in a way that feels dangerous ✓
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- By using the pronoun "she" in 'She Walks in Beauty' Byron __________ the woman.
- anonymises ✓
- identifies
- magnifies
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- Throughout 'She Walks in Beauty' Byron contrasts __________ and __________.
- night/day
- love/hate
- light/dark ✓
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- Byron’s title 'She Walks in Beauty' is ______ - it raises questions about what beauty truly is.
- 'ambiguous' ✓
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Key learning points
- The title raises questions about what beauty truly is - is it something we have within us, or something external to us?
- The anonymous “she” represents that the woman was a stranger to Byron; it also gives her an ethereal quality.
- Byron contrasts dark and light imagery throughout the poem - possibly to illustrate the rarity of the woman’s beauty.
- The woman’s hair is described as “raven”, arguably to show the mysterious nature of the woman and her alluring presence.
Common misconception
Students do not think that they can analyse the poem's title.
In analytical responses, students can absolutely analyse the poem's title! This can be a great way to start a response or comparison.
Keywords
Alluring - powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating
Gaudy - extravagantly-bright in a tasteless way
Aura - a distinctive atmosphere surrounding a person or thing
To embody - to represent a quality or an idea exactly
To objectify - to treat a person like an object or tool rather than as a human being
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