Comparing The Journey And She Walks In Beauty

Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thught and the thought has found words." All famous poets have their own creative way." All famous poets have their own creative way of presention their feelings. Wether its through a different perspective or comparing two things. "The Journey" and "She Walks in Beauty" both can have many differnet themes but correlate when it comes to showing balance. Although these two poems are about different topics, from different perspectives and written by different people, they both share a common idea of balance between two subjects. Mary Oliver's "The Journey" and Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" demonstrates how two different situations can have balance as well as contrast with each

"The Journey" by Mary Oliver was published in 1986, she is an American poet who has won multiple awards and prizes. She started writing poems at the age of 14. Oliver is known for her vivid and powerful depictions of nature. Some consider her to be a regionalist, as many of her poems draw inspiration from her childhood homes in both Ohio and New England. "The Journey" is about the journey one takes through life in order to become an individual. In the beginning a feeling of being lost in an environment is expressed, but once one understands what their heart wants the feeling of being lost quickly transitions to the feeling of transcendental bliss. Presenting the balance between two situations. Similarly, "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron also known as Lord Byron is written in a way that shows the balance between two sides. Gordon was an english poet and politician who often wrote about what he experienced in his everyday life. He was the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romanitics of his time, he created immense popular romantic heros haunted by guilt for which to he seemed to model. "She Walks in Beauty" is about an unnamed women, she is quite striking and the author compares her to a lot of beautiful but dark things. His poem contrasts the light and dark to describe her beauty and to define both sides of the spectrum. He also clearly

For an example, from lines one through four, in Mary's poem she writes, "One day you finally knew, What you had to do, And began, Though the voices around you, Kept shouting" Here Mary is expressing her opinions, show casing her feelings about being a unique individual. In lines eight and nine Mary agknowledges what it feels like to try to be yourself and how to find a balance. She says, "And you felt the old tug, at your ankles" These lines show the problem and are contrasted with the lines later in the poem. Mary writes further down in the poem Mary writes, "But you didn't stop, You knew what you had to do, Though the wind pried, With ts stiff fingers, At the ver foundations". The wind represents the common social norms, and these lines show how society pressures can lead one astray of who they really are. Line twentyone then states, "And the road full of fallen" representing all of the people who lost who they are because they got wraped up in the crowd. Because Mary Oliver is trying to persuade the reader to e an individual, she shows both sides of the story, those who were strond, and those who had fallen. In "The Journey" lines twentytwo through twentynine pertain mostly to the theme as she states, "Branches and stones, But little by little, As you left their voices behind, The stars began to burn, Through the sheets of clouds, And there was a new