Consider the poems.
"She Walks in Beauty"
by George Gordon Byron
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:
Thus mellowed to that tender
light Which Heaven to gaudy
day denies.
One shade the more, one ray
the less, Had half impaired
the nameless grace Which
waves in every raven tress,
An excerpt from "To
Helen"
by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks
of yore, That gently, o'er a
perfumed sea, The weary,
wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long
wont to roam, Thy
hyacinth hair, thy classic
face, Thy Naiad airs have
brought me home To the
glory that was Greece And
Which statement best describes the subjects of the
poems?
The woman in Byron's poem is wealthy; the woman
in Poe's poem is powerful.
The woman in Byron's poem is youthful; the woman
in Poe's poem is mature.
The woman in Byron's poem is gentle; the woman in
Poe's poem is welcoming.
The woman in Byron's poem is adventurous; the
woman in Poe's poem is wise
