Question

Instructions:Select the correct text in the passage.

In this excerpt from "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron, which phrases build up the theme of contrast and balance in beauty?

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Answer 1

The phrases build up the theme of contrast and balance in beauty in this poem of Lord Byron are:

"And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes."

This lines seek to show that beauty is not always lights. In order for something to be beautiful, it has to have both positive and negative aspects. Nothing is fully good or fully bad, it has to posses a balance, an equilibrium in which all the parts come together to create a truly beautiful thing.