A Comparison of Poetry Structures: Night By Blake and She Walks in Beauty By Byron

This research aims to compare the structures of two poetries: Night by Blake and She Walks in Beauty by Byron. There are three focuses in this research, namely theme, figure of speech and imagery. To analyzed it, the researcher used the qualitative research and also structural approach theory. The result of this research shows that the poets of those poetries use theme, figure of speech and imagery. There are many kinds of figures of speech and imageries in the poetries. In Night, there are only four figures of speech, namely (a) simile, (b) personification, (c) metaphor and (d) hyperbole and uses (1) visual, (2) auditory, (3) tactile and (4) kinesthetic as the imageries. In She Walks in Beauty, Byron uses (a) simile, (b) personification and (c) litotes as figures of speech and the imageries are (1) visual and (2) kinesthetic.The poetries Night and She Walks in Beauty show differences and similarities with regard to their poets’ writing style. Blake is subjective whereas Byron is objective in writing. Both poets use the nature in different ways to build the theme, figures of speech and imageries. Blake uses the nature to describe two contrast places and Byron uses the nature to describe a woman character.