The poem is about unnamed women.she really quite striking and the speaker compare her to lots of beautiful but dark things like knight, and starry- skies . The second stanza continue to use the contrast between light and dark, day and night to describe her beauty. We also learn that her face is beautiful and pure as well as sweet.the third stanza conclude that by saying that she is not only beautiful externally but internally as well
The poet describes a woman who “walks in beauty, like the night/Of
cloudless climes and starry skies” . Immediately the light
of stars and the shadow of night are brought forth as contrasts,
foreshadowing the further contrasts the poet notices regarding this
beautiful woman. Seeing her eyes, he declares that in her face “all
that’s best of dark and bright” are joined. Her beauty is contrasted to
the “gaudy” daylight.
The final stanza returns to her face, but again sees the silent
expression of peace and calm in her cheek, brow, and smiles. Her
pleasant facial expressions eloquently but innocently express her inner
goodness and peacefulness.
In the second stanza, the poet reflects on the balance in the woman’s
beauty: “One shade the more, one ray the less”would hinder
the “nameless grace” which surrounds her. He then turns to her inner
life, seeing her external beauty as an expression of thoughts that dwell
in a place (perhaps her mind, or her beautiful head and face) both
“pure” and “dear”
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