She Walks in Beauty
by Elena Toledo, USA
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She walks in beauty, eyes soft,
Innocent; silky breast that captures
men’s heart, her alarming whiteness,
making angels turn dark.
In times of sorrow, she's the light; if she
cries, her tears breakdown into drops of
divine moist. Wrapped in her skin, never
has a sin, her lips turn to fear in
the eyes of evil. Her sacred presence makes earth
heavenly; her beauty blinds the power of vision,
her virtuous is an envious, making instinct
jealousy take over. She walks in beauty.
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About
"She Walks in Beauty" is about how beauty is not always innocent. It may seem so at first glance, but go a little deeper and it becomes much more twisted in appearance.
Theme
Like the last poem, the theme of the poem is unclear. However, "Beauty is deadly" would be my interpretation. The woman goes around wooing men, but then their jelousy takes over and blinds them.
Structure
This poem is a freeverse, consisting of three stanzas of quatrains. There is no rhyme patter, or any kind of rhyme for that matter, at all.
Poetic Devices
The most notable poetic device used in this poem is allusion. All of them are biblical allusions found in the following: line 4, line 7, line 8, and line 9. From these, one could guess that the woman in the poem could be a demon or something along those lines. It also makes use of enjambment in line 8 and 9, as well as most of the other lines.
Who in the world are you to define my work as evil?
ReplyDeleteThis was not meant to be an evil poem!!!