The true beauty- thomas carew

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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.

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The term “beauty” is the quality of being pleasing to senses or mind. Hence, I think in questioning what true beauty is, we have to consider the satisfaction we get from each kinds of beauty; external and internal. therefore it depends on individual if which one is true beauty. However I do agree with Carew that internal beauty is the true beauty. For one thing, external beauty fades once we across certain age, but internal beauty is constant. Moreover, external beauty is depending on individual definition such as skin color, but the meaning of internal beauty is universal. It is ...

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