Assignment 3: The True Beauty
Thomas Carew’s “The True Beauty” is about two kinds of beauty; outer beauty and inner beauty, but only inner beauty is a true beauty. The first kind of beauty which is mentioned in a first stanza is a physical attractiveness; human appearance on the outside, for example “rosy cheek” “coral lip” and “starlike eyes”. The physical beauty can be pleasing to the beholder, but it is not long-lasting. The second kind of beauty, the opposite of the physical one, is internal beauty. It is the matter of a quality inside humans such as personality, kindness, mind, good thought. Carew appreciate the inner beauty better than the outer one. it differs from external beauty because it is long-lasting, not rotten with time and able to please him as shown in phrase “kindle never-dying fires”. Therefore, according to Carew inner beauty is a true beauty.