Lamia Flashcards
What is the context of the character Lamia?
Was a mistress of Zeus. The wife killed her children turning Lamia into a monster. It was said she lulled strangers into her mouth.
What did Keats write to Brawne?
‘Ask yourself if you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me so destroyed my freedom’
What did Charles Brown think about Keats’ relationship with Brawne?
Was a distraction from his writing and was a known flirt
She caused him emotional turmoil
What was Brown’s role for Keats?
He nursed him after his haemorrhage.
What time period does this poem reflect?
Enlightenment (philosophic resonance/movement) vs romanticism
What is the meaning behind the poem?
We need a balance of reality dreams and truth.
The fragility of love and life itself.
Could also be a criticism of the Enlightenment.
What is the form?
Written in rhyming couplets and iambic pentameter
mythical and fairy tale narrative
What quote links to setting?
‘Purple-lined palace of sweet sin’
what quotes links to setting?
‘In the green-recessed woods they flew//Nor grew they pale as mortal lovers do.’
‘will you leave me on the hills alone.’
‘Tempest in the distance brewed’
‘Purple-lined palace of sweet sin.’
What quotes present Lamia as a villain?
’Palpitating snake’
‘Some demon’s mistress, or the demon itself.’
‘Put her new lips to his and gave afresh//The life she had so entangled in her mesh.’
‘Serpent’s prey’
What quotes characterise Lamia as a victim?
‘A mournful voice.’
‘Wreathed tomb.’
‘Hot…sharp sparks’ ‘Scarlet pain.’
‘Nothing but pain and ugliness’
‘Escaped from so sore ills’.
‘Serpent prison house.’
‘Murmuring of love, and pale with pain.’
‘Gentle Lamia judged and judged//That Lycius could not love in half a fright//…won his heart//More pleasantly by playing woman’s part.’
‘I go from your breast houseless’
‘Pale and meek.’ ‘Wept a rain of sorrow at his words.’
‘In her sorrows, soft and new//His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue.’
‘She could never win//His foolish heart from its mad pompousness.’
’Made the tender-personed Lamia melt into shade.’
‘The sophists eye//Like a sharp spear went through her utterly.’
‘With a frightful scream she vanished.’
‘Foul dream!’
what quotes characterise Appolonius?
‘My trusty guide.’
‘The ghost of folly is haunting my sweet dreams.’
‘Felt the cold full sponge to pleasure pressed.’
‘Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.’
‘Empty the haunted air.’
‘Unweave a rainbow.’
‘Made the tender-personed Lamia melt into shade.’
‘Impious proud-heart sophistries’
‘Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man!’
‘Demon eyes!’
‘The sophists eye//Like a sharp spear went through her utterly.’
Quotes that describe Lycius as a villain?
’His eyes had drunk her beauty up.’
‘How to entangle, trammel up, and snare//Your soul in mine.’
‘A prize.’
‘In her sorrows, soft and new//His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue.’
‘She could never win//His foolish heart from its mad pompousness.’
What quote emphasises how love deceives people from reality?
‘Reason fades, in the calmed twilight of Platonic shades’
Why did romanticism oppose the enlightenment?
- Romantics believed that ideals such as reason, science, and progress had been elevated at the expense of values like beauty, expression, or belonging.
- Romanticism seeks to find the role of the individual in a chaotic and mutable world, while the Enlightenment looks for the empirical and justifiable strictures of such a world.
- The Romantic may assert that human nature of love must triumph over “totalitarian” rationality of utilitarianism, while the Enlightened hero embraces rationalism and utilitarianism and proves his or her love and compassion for other beings through them.
