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Beauty Sculpted by Love
The poem compares beauty to a seashell shaped by the sea’s power and then altered by love. Williams presents sculpted details—scallops and lion’s paws—as the record of retreating waves, with repeated rhythms that merge sight and sound. Ultimately the poem says perception and feeling come together: the ear and the eye rest in a shared intimacy produced by natural forces and love’s effect on outward form.
Read Complete Analysesbeauty is a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant till love has had its way with her scallops and lion’s paws sculptured to the tune of retreating waves undying accents repeated till the ear and the eye lie down together in the same bed.
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