Poetry · Character

Beauty

An abstract personification of beauty, treated as a character.

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Personified as an eternal ideal that poetry seeks to express.

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With Unknown Narrator (psychological): Beauty is an abstract, almost obsessive ideal for the narrator, representing both inspiration and…

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Aftermath
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psychological · ambivalent
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Beauty appears across 20 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.

Poetry
Personified as an eternal ideal that poetry seeks to express.
A Better Woe
Referenced as 'barren breast of beauty' that glows, symbolizing an elusive or unattainable ideal.
In the Meadow
The beloved maiden whose curls and tresses are described.
Retribution
The object of devotion at whose shrine the narrator is now bound.
Lilatu Laili
Personified force whose high heels crush the narrator's heart, soul, and shame.
Midnight Mood
The beloved, addressed as 'Twilight,' with Eastern eyes and a youthful breast, is the object of the narrator's desire.
A Serenade
The beloved addressed as 'my sleeping queen,' 'my peerless star,' and 'my sweetest flower,' the object of the poet's desire.
The Brass Bed
Personified as a force that cannot bring life, contrasted with Pain.
The God of My Goddess
The goddess who presides over the speaker's feast of delight, and whose god he seeks.
Stolen Salvias
The beloved who crowned the speaker with stars and playfully 'slew' him, associated with the theft of the salvias.
Beneath the Salvias
Implied as the 'lady' or beloved addressed in the poem, the object of the speaker's dream and desire.
O, Give Me Strength to Take
Referenced as the field from which the sweetest flowers must grow, representing an ideal or standard the speaker feels he cannot meet.
Near the Cascades
Invoked as 'Beauty's daughter, Beauty's bride,' representing an idealized, transcendent force.
The End and the Beginning
The 'mother eternal of the dead' is interpreted as Beauty, sorrow-laden yet smiling, embodying renewal.
Water and Flowers
Implied as the beloved addressed, the one invited to share in the flowers and springs.
The Wanderer
Personified as weeping where God once trod, symbolizing loss and spiritual longing.
The Lost Disciple
The woman at the spring who beckons the disciple with tulips and poppies, representing earthly love and desire.
Badruddin
Personified as a maid cooking sesame under the transformed tree, dispelling human woe.
The Sufi
A form of grace and beauty descried as Love, coming to pay toll to the soul.
A Chant of Mystics
Personified as the Beloved whose glance enraptures the dancers.

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