ROMANTICISM and Bryon

There are several elements which offer proof that Lord ByronÆs poem ôShe Walks In Beautyö is indeed English Romanticism, a term which Wood (2001) describes as loosely applicable to a literary and artistic movement of the 18th and 19th century, the aims of which were a return to nature, a belief in the goodness of humanity, the exaltation of the senses and emotions over the reason and intellect, and the rediscovery of the artist as an individual creator.

The work of the Romanticists had several set characteristics and it is by finding these characteristics in a given poem that one establishes that the poem is romantic; and ôShe Walks in Beautyö is indeed Romantic in this sense. First, it is written in a basic iambic tetrameter which is to say that it is simple. As noted by Bloom and Golding (1971), prior to the romantic period, poetry and art in general tended to be complex and grandiose in structure whereas romanticism favored simplicity and naturalness of structure. Thus, its very structure is ôromantic.ö

Another characteristic associated with Romanticism that can be found in Lord ByronÆs poem ôShe Walks in Beau

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