Blond Hair Metaphors

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Lord Byron in this work describes the beauty of women by comparing her external and internal features to unordinary objects. For that matter he uses metaphors, simile and personification. Lines 9 is great example of poet’s usage of metaphors: “Which waves in every raven tress”. The historical research of the time when the poem was written showed that back in those days the beauty standards were different, this is what Lord Byron portrait as a beautiful in his poem. Blond hair and pail skin was defined as beautiful, though the poet said compare women’s hair to a raven tress which is more of a dark colour, he states that this is what makes her face lighter,