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She Walks In Beauty Poetic Devices

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Throughout time, love has proven to be one of the strongest motivators of mankind. It has served as the motivation for both war and peace. One of the greatest contributions love has made to mankind is that of art. Poetry and music are methods of art that people use to express love. These methods are effective because of the poetic devices they use to describe love. In both the love poem “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron and the love song “Just the Way You Are” by Khari Cain, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, and Khalil Walton poetic devices are used to describe love for a woman. While Cain, Lawrence, Levine. Mars,and Walton in“Just the Way You Are” use hyperbole and repetition to express love in their song, Lord Byron in“She Walks in Beauty” more effectively uses simile and juxtaposition express love in his poem. The song “Just the Way You Are” is about a man telling a woman how beautiful she is and how much he loves her for who she is, although she does not believe him. The writers use repetition to present love for a woman. They choose to repeat specific features of the woman that makes her …show more content…

The basis of the song is to emphasize the love that the speaker has for the woman he is speaking about. Hyperboles are an over exaggeration used to emphasize a comparison in literature. The speaker says that when the woman smiles “the whole world stops and stares for a while”(17). This a clear over exaggeration, as there is no possible way the whole world would know that she is smiling and it is highly unlikely that everyone would stop and stare at her. The speaker says this to express his love for her. When he says that “the whole world stops and stares for a while”(17), he actually means his own personal world that revolves around his love “stops and stares for a while”(17). The speaker uses a hyperbole to describe the importance that his love’s smile has in his life

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