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How is Hermes described at the start?

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  1. crowned with feathers, fluttering light … on a throne of gold
  2. like a stooped falcon ere he takes his prey
  3. Real are the dreams of Gods and smoothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream
  4. Too gentle Hermes
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How is Hermes’ passion described?

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  1. ever smitten Hermes empty left his golden throne bent warm on amorous theft
  2. celestial heat burnt from his winged heels … whiteness as the lily clear blushed into roses
  3. so he rested on the lonely ground, pensive, and full of painful jealousies
  4. he burned + warm flushed moment
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How is Lamia described at the start?

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  1. beauteous wreath with melancholy eyes
  2. some penanced lady’s elf, some demon’s mistress or the demon’s self
  3. smooth lipped serpent + swift lisping
  4. found a palpitating snake, bright and cirque-couchant in dusky brake
  5. her head was serpent but ah bitter sweet
  6. her throat was serpent but the words she spake came though as bubbling honey
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How is Lamia’s beauty described?

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  1. gloomier tapestries - so rainbow sided touched with miseries
  2. full of silver moons + sprinkled with stars
  3. dazzling hue, vermillion spotted golden, green and blue: striped like a zebra freckled like a pard
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How is the setting described?

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  1. from rushed green and brakes and cowslipped lawns
  2. from vale to vale, from wood to wood
  3. rugged founts + wild hills
  4. ridge whose barren back stretches with all its mist and cloudy rack
  5. about a young bird’s flutter from a wood
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How is the nymph described?

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  1. her loveliness invisible yet free to wander as she loves in liberty
  2. sweet nymph
  3. by my power her beauty is veiled to keep it unaffronted, unassailed by the love-glances from unlovely eyes
  4. thornless wilds: her pleasant days she tastes unseen
  5. poured pearls: while on land they withered and adored
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How is the nymph and Hermes’ love described?

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  1. full of adoring tears
  2. she like a moon in wane, faded before him, cowered, nor could restrain her fearful sobs
  3. self folding like a flower
  4. god fostering her chilled hand … her eyelids opened bland
  5. deaf to his throbbing throat’s long long melodious moan
  6. nor grew they pale as mortal lovers do
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How is Lamia’s transformation described?

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  1. now a lady bright, a full born beauty new and exquisite?
  2. by a clear pool wherein she passioned to see herself
  3. she was a maid more beautiful than ever twisted braid
  4. undressed of all her sapphires, greens and ameythst
  5. spoilt all her silver mail and golden brede, made gloom of all her frecklings, streaks and bars, eclipsed her crescents and licked up her stars
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How is her transformation painful?

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  1. she writhed about, convulsed with scarlet pain, a deep volcanion yellow took the place
  2. her elfin blood ran in madness, her mouth foamed
  3. her eyes in torture fixed … hot, glazed and wide, with lid-lashes all sear flashed phosphor and sharp sparks
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How is Lamia’s love described?

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  1. a virgin purest lipped yet in the lore of love deep learned to the red hearts core
  2. As though in cupid’s college she had spent sweet days a lovely graduate still unshent
  3. and love and pleasure and the ruddy strife of hearts and lips. Ah miserable me
  4. new voice luting soft cried Lycius, Gentle Lycius
  5. she was a woman … the self-same pains inhabited her frail strung heart
  6. began to sing, happy in beauty, life and love and everything … the stars drew in their panting fires
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How is Lycius first described?

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  1. his silent sandals swept the mossy green
  2. shut up in mysteries
  3. charioting foremost in the envious race like a young Jove with calm and uneager face
  4. perhaps grown wearied of their Corinth talk, over the solitary hills he fared
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How does Lamia entice Lycius?

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  1. Her neck regal white turned
  2. her soft look growing coy
  3. every word she spake enticed him on so unperplexed delight and pleasures known
  4. so delicious were the words she sung
  5. of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
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How is Lycius’ love described?

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  1. so sweetly to these ravished ears of mine came thy sweet greeting, that if thou shouldst fade why memory will waste me to a shade
  2. Lycius from death awoke into amaze
  3. his eyes had drunk her beauty up, leaving no drop in the bewildering cup and still the cup was full
  4. even as thou vanishest so I shall die
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How is Lycius’ ignorance described?

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  1. blinded Lycius
  2. reason fades in the calmed twilight of platonic shades
  3. passed the city gates he knew not how, no noiseless, and he never thought to know
  4. Wherefore did you blind yourself from his quick eyes?
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How does Lamia prove manipulating and deceiving?

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  1. What canst thou say or do of charm enough to dull the nice rememberance of my home?
  2. cruel lady + the life she had so tangled in her mesh
  3. gentle Lamia … playing woman’s part
  4. in the serpent prison house
  5. her dream with feast and rioting to blend
  6. empty of immortality and bliss
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How is Lycius’ heartbreak described?

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  1. bidding him raise his drooping head and clear his soul of doubt
  2. swooned, murmuring of love and pale with pain
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How is Corinth described?

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  1. populous streets and temples lewd muttered
  2. threw their moving shadows on the wall, or found them clustered in the corniced shade of some arched temple door or dusky colonnade
  3. wide spreaded night
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How is Appolonius described and the reaction to him?

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  1. muffling his face of greeting friends in fear
  2. sharp eyes + slow stepped and robed in philosophic gown
  3. hurried Lamia trembled. Ah said he. Why do you shudder love so ruefully?
  4. my trusty guide and good instructor: but tonight he seems the ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams
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How is Lamia and Lycius’ escape described?

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  1. shut from the busy world of more incredulous
  2. what woe afterwards befell them
  3. mild as a star in water
  4. silver lamp whose phosphor glow + marble hue
  5. unveiled the summer heaven, blue and clear
  6. purple lined palace of sweet sin
  7. pillared porch with lofty portal door
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How does their love develop?

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  1. her sorrows soft and new. his passion cruel grown
  2. foolish heart from its mad pompousness
  3. pale contented sort of discontent
  4. love in a hut is love forgive us cinder ashes dust
  5. love jealous grown of so complete a pair hovered and buzzed his wings with fearful roar
  6. my silver planet
  7. how to entangle, trammel up and snare your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there like the hid scent in an unbudded rose
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How are Lamia’s vulnerabilities described?

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  1. stronger fancy to reclaim her wild and timid nature
  2. I have no friends said Lamia. No not one
  3. pale and meek + wept a rain of sorrows + Lady’s cheek trembled
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How is Lycius’ doubts described?

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  1. a moment’s thought is passion’s passing bell
  2. sure some sweet name thou hast
  3. deafening the swallow’s twitter came a thrill of trumpets. Lycius started. The sounds fled but left a thought, a buzzing in his head.
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How is the wedding described?

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  1. lay an untasted feast teeming with odours
  2. how to dress the misery in fit magnificence
  3. mimicking a glade + haunting music + creeping imagery + whole charm might fade
  4. closed, hushed and still complete and ready for the revels rude when dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude
  5. wine came from the gloomy tun with merry shine + merry wine, sweet wine
  6. each guest with busy brain + entered marvelling
  7. flushed were their cheeks and bright eyes, double bright
  8. roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer, beautiful slaves
  9. loud revelry grew hush, the stately music no more breathes
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How does Appolonius act at the wedding?

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  1. so in they hurried all, mazed curious and keen save one who looked thereon with eye severe and with calm planted steps
  2. the sophists eye, like a sharp spear, went through her utterly, keen cruel, perceant, stinging
  3. infest with an unbidden presence the bright throng of younger friends
  4. fool, fool + shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?
  5. shut shut those juggling eyes thou ruthless man + grey beard wretch
  6. had fixed his eye, without a twinkle or stir full on the alarmed beauty of the bride
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How is Lycius described at the end?

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  1. Lycius’ arms were empty of delight as were his limbs of life: no pulse or breath they found and in its marriage robe the heavy body wound
  2. O senseless Lycius. Madman
  3. human sense reel: some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs
  4. nothing but the shriek with its sad echo did the silence break
  5. pressed her hand, with devout touch … ‘twas icy and the cold ran through his veins, then sudden it grew hot’
  6. lashless eyelids stretch around his demons eyes, my sweet bride withers at their potency
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How is Lamia described at the end?

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  1. with a frightful scream she vanished

2. Lamia no longer fair, sat there a deadly white

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How does Keats challenge what Apollonius represents?

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  1. philosophy will clip an angels wings
  2. do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?
  3. unlawful magic and enticing lies

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