The concept of beauty has been a baffling issue and a bone of contention among thinkers and intellectuals, such confusion can plausibly be understood in the changeable standards considered in every culture as to be determined. Throughout history, it has been glorified and highlighted in many ways. So many literary products have considered it as its subject matter in prose and verse. Poets and writers in different cultures praise women’s beauty, each one of them admires a certain feature than others, and it could be body, eyes hair or the good smell. By way of sampling, Keats in one of his narrative poems La Belle Dame Sans Merci says:
I met Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery’s child; …show more content…
S. Kline: I saw a girl under green laurel Colder and whiter than the snow Untouched by the sun for many years: And her speech, her lovely face, her hair So please me that she's before my eyes, And will be always, wherever, on sea or shore.
Petrarch combines the beauty of nature and Laurel together, through the inclusion of some metaphors which show his ideal beauty, above all: the white skin, the pretty face, and hair. In fact, his style tends to equate her beauty with that nature in so many levels. Another pioneer in world literature, who is Shakespeare, has portrayed beauty in his sonnet 132 in a very special fashion:
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red that her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more …show more content…
Moving to another literary genre, which is the novel, Patrick Süskind in his Das Parfüm: Die Geschichte eines Mörders has approached beauty in avant-gardist way. As an eye bird view about it, the hero called Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is endowed with a supernatural power in smelling. His smoldering desire to become an unprecedented perfumer and come up with and everlasting perfume, pushes him to hunt and kill only beautiful ladies, above all those whose skin are marked by an exceptionally attractive odour to be extracted for his creation, which will save him from death penalty. Not only Western literature that makes women and beauty two sides of the same coin, but also Eastern literature from Pre-Islamic era until now it is an influential topic. For instance, Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani who is a feminist contemporary poet celebrates women’s beauty in his poetry especially in Maya, where he describes the details of her beautiful
I met Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery’s child; …show more content…
S. Kline: I saw a girl under green laurel Colder and whiter than the snow Untouched by the sun for many years: And her speech, her lovely face, her hair So please me that she's before my eyes, And will be always, wherever, on sea or shore.
Petrarch combines the beauty of nature and Laurel together, through the inclusion of some metaphors which show his ideal beauty, above all: the white skin, the pretty face, and hair. In fact, his style tends to equate her beauty with that nature in so many levels. Another pioneer in world literature, who is Shakespeare, has portrayed beauty in his sonnet 132 in a very special fashion:
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red that her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more …show more content…
Moving to another literary genre, which is the novel, Patrick Süskind in his Das Parfüm: Die Geschichte eines Mörders has approached beauty in avant-gardist way. As an eye bird view about it, the hero called Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is endowed with a supernatural power in smelling. His smoldering desire to become an unprecedented perfumer and come up with and everlasting perfume, pushes him to hunt and kill only beautiful ladies, above all those whose skin are marked by an exceptionally attractive odour to be extracted for his creation, which will save him from death penalty. Not only Western literature that makes women and beauty two sides of the same coin, but also Eastern literature from Pre-Islamic era until now it is an influential topic. For instance, Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani who is a feminist contemporary poet celebrates women’s beauty in his poetry especially in Maya, where he describes the details of her beautiful