Starter quiz
- What does the word 'enchanting' mean?
- to be delightfully-charming or attractive ✓
- to be filled with love for someone or something
- to have a feeling of great wonder
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- If you describe someone's face you are focusing on their __________ qualities.
- emotional
- personal
- physical ✓
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- What words would we associate with someone described as 'gentle'?
- soft ✓
- severe
- sweet ✓
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- What does it mean to evoke?
- to bring to mind or a recollection ✓
- to take something away
- to deliberately annoy someone
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- Infatuation is...
- an extreme dislike of someone
- an intense but short-lived passion ✓
- a long-term love for someone
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- ______ is the name of the literary movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which poets turned their attention and awe to the natural world.
- 'Romanticism' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the keywords with their definitions.
- enchanting⇔delightfully-charming or attractive ✓
- awe⇔a feeling of great wonder and/or admiration ✓
- Romanticism⇔a literary movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries ✓
- speculate⇔to form opinions about something without having the necessary facts ✓
- Starting with the first, put the summary of 'She Walks in Beauty' in chronological order.
- 1⇔Byron describes the woman's physical beauty.
- 2⇔Byron describes the woman as being gentle.
- 3⇔Byron speculates about the woman's inner beauty.
- Romanticism was a movement in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. Romantic poets focused on...
- using imagery from the natural world ✓
- logic prevailing over emotion
- a delight in the unspoilt beauty of nature ✓
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- Arguably, 'She Walks in Beauty' shows only a __________ attraction and not love.
- momentous
- profound
- superficial ✓
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- In 'She Walks in Beauty' the speaker feels ______ with the woman he is describing.
- 'enamoured' ✓
- Byron, writer of 'She Walks in Beauty', was famed for his very ______ private life, including his many affairs with women.
- 'public' ✓
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Key learning points
- The poem describes Byron's first sighting of a beautiful woman at a London party.
- The speaker initially describes her physical appearance, before speculating about her inner beauty.
- Byron was famed for his very public private life, including his many affairs with women.
- Byron remains one of the most famous Romantic poets of all time - the poem adheres to Romantic conventions.
- The poem barely mentions love, so this could be interpreted as a more surface level attraction.
Common misconception
Students might think that this poem was written from one lover to another.
This poem is about Lord Byron's first encounter with his cousin's wife - as far as we know, he doesn't interact with her or pursue her - he merely observes her beauty from afar.
Keywords
Enchanting - delightfully-charming or attractive
Awe - a feeling of great wonder and/or admiration
Enamoured - to be filled with love for someone or something
Romanticism - A literary movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in which poets began to turn their attention towards nature and the interior world of feeling
To speculate - to form opinions about something without having the necessary facts or information
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