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Lamia Flashcards

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‘She was a maid more…

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…beautiful than ever twisted braid’ (Lamia)

  • After her transformation, there is a large focus on her beauty being her only noticeable character trait.
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How does Romanticism manifest itself in Lamia?

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  • The power of the imagination.
  • The beauty of the abstract/ambiguity.
  • The spiritual.
  • The supernatural.
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The beginning
Use of stereotypical mythical setting:
1) Upon…
2) Repetition of…
3) ‘Nymph and… ‘Dryads and…
4) ‘King…

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1)…a time
2)…before
3)…Satyr’ …Fauns’
4)…Oberon’

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Beginning
Sexual Desire:
1) ‘amorous…
2) ‘ever-smitten…
3) ‘they withered…
4) ‘what a world of love…
5) ‘a celestial…
6) ‘breathing upon the flowers…

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1)…theft’
2)…Hermes’
3)…and adored’
4)…was at her feet!’
5)…heat’
6)…his passion new’

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Lamia pre-transformation:
1) ‘mournful…
2) ‘When from this wreathèd tomb…
3) ‘gordian…
4) ‘Vermillion-spotted, golden,…
5) ‘Eyed like…
6) ‘rainbow-…
7) ‘the words she spake / Came,…
8) ‘beauteous wreath…

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1)…voice’
2)…shall I awake?’
3)…shape of dazzling hue’
4)…green, and blue’
5)…a peacock’
6)…sided’
7)…as through bubbling honey’
8)…with melancholy eyes’

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Beginning
Love and pain:
1) ‘The ruddy strife of…

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1)…hearts and lips!’

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The nymph and Hermes:
1) ‘unseen…unseen…
2) Lamia: ‘let me have once more/ …
3) ‘she, like a moon in wane, …
4) ‘Her fearful…
5) ‘gave up her honey…
6) ‘[Hermes’] celestial…
7) ‘keep her loveliness…
8) ‘Nor grew they pale…

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1)…unaffronted, unassailed’
2)…A woman’s shape’
3)…faded before him’
4)…sobs’
5)…to the lees.’
6)…heat’
7)…invisible’
8)…as mortal lovers do’

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Lamia’s transformation:
1) ‘convulsed with…
2) ‘torture fixed, …
3) ‘Lava ravishes…
4) ‘Spoilt all her…
5) ‘Eclipsed her crescents, …
6) ‘Undressed of all her…
7) ‘Nothing but pain…

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1)…scarlet pain’
2)…and anguish drear’
3)…the mead’
4)…silver mail’
5)…and licked up her stars.’
6)…sapphires, greens and amethyst’
7)…and ugliness were left’

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Lamia post-transformation:
1) ‘a lady…
2) ‘a full-born beauty…
3) ‘By a clear pool, wherein…
4) ‘her robes flaunted with…
5) ‘A virgin purest lipped…

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1)…bright’
2)…new and exquisite?’
3)…she passionèd / To see herself’ - allusion to Narcissus
4)…the daffodils’ - allusion to Narcissus
5)…, yet in the lore / Of love deep learnèd.’

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Love and pain:
1) ‘unperplex bliss…
2) ‘love, and pleasure…
3) ‘unperplexed delight…

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1)…from its neighbour pain’
2)…and the ruddy strife of hearts and lips!’
3)…and pleasure known’

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Lamia and Porphyro meet:
1) ‘Jove heard his vows, …
2) ’His fantasy was lost, …
3) ‘unseen…
4) ‘so delicious were…
5) ‘soon his eyes…
6) ‘she saw his…
7) ‘Even as thou vanishest…
8) ‘as thy silver…
9) ‘Over these hills and vales…

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1)…and bettered his desire’
2)…where reason fades’
3)…she stood’
4)…the words she sung’
5)…had drunk her beauty up’
6)…chain so sure’
7)…so I shall die.’
8)…proxy shine’
9)…where no joy is’

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‘Platonic…

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…shades’

  • A comment of Plato’s cave analogy about one’s perception of reality. A derisive one? Questioning the legitimacy of Plato’s partitioning of reality into what is observed and what is real, intimation that reality is entirely subjective to the imagination of a person. Paradigm Romantic.
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What is a possible motivation for Keats’ motivation to write medieval and mythical poems?

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  • G.R Elliott believed that for Keats: ‘to draw into his verse more of life, external and mental, would be to shatter his mastery of beauty’.
  • This battle is reflected in Lamia.
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In what way is Keats’ poetry controversial?

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  • He criticised Wordsworth’s commitment to dogmatism, saying that he resents ‘being bullied into a certain philosophy’, in one of his letters.
  • Could this be a motivation for the moral ambiguity constructed in Lamia?
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Love and reality in the middle:

  • ‘finer spirits cannot breathe…
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…below in human climes, and live.’

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Love and reality in the middle:

  • Lycius ‘Swooned, murmuring of love, …
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… and pale with pain.’

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Love and reality in the middle:

  • ‘The life she had so…
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…entangled in her mesh’

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Love and reality in the middle:

  • ‘As he from one trance…
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…was wakening / Into another.’

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Fate:

  • ‘The stars drew in…
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…their panting fires’

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Love and reality in the middle:

  • ‘Lycius from death…
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…awoke in amaze’

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Love and reality in the middle:

  • ‘by playing…
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…woman’s part’

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Blindness and reality:

1) ‘blinded…

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1)…Lycius’

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(Lamia) Trepidation, secrecy and danger:

  • ‘Muttered, like tempest in the…
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  • …distance brewed’
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Trepidation, danger and secrecy:

  • ‘found them clustered…
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…in the corniced shade.’

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First meeting with Apollonius:

  • ‘curled grey beard, …
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…sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown’

  • Even the physical form of Apollonius’ being is well-defined.
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First meeting with Apollonius:

  • ‘hurried Lamia…
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…trembled’

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First meeting with Apollonius:

  • ‘Why do you shudder, love, …
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…so ruefully?’

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First meeting with Apollonius:

  • ‘Wherefore did you blind…
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… / Yourself from his quick eyes?’

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First meeting with Apollonius:

  • ‘he seems / The ghost of…
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…folly haunting my sweet dreams.’

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Reality and love:

  • ‘shut from…
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…the busy world’

  • Only occlusion from reality could shield their love.
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Love and reality:

  • ‘Love in a hut…
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…is…cinder ashes, dust’

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Love and reality:

  • ‘Love in a hut…
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…is…cinder ashes, dust’

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Love and reality:

  • ‘Love in a palace is…
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…perhaps at last / More grievous torment.’

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Love and suffering:

  • ‘too short was their bliss…
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…to breed distrust and hate.’

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Love and suffering:

  • ‘Love, jealous grown of so…
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…so complete a pair, Hovered and buzzed his wings’

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Love and superficiality:

  • ‘with eyelids closed…
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…saving a tithe which love still open kept’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • [from outside] ‘came a thrill…
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…of trumpets’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘a thought, a buzzing in his head…
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…for the first time’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘that purple-linèd palace…
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…of sweet sin’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘His spirit passed beyond its golden bourne…
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…into the noisy world.’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • Lamia: ‘You have…
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…deserted me - where am I now?’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘My silver planet, …
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…both of eve and morn!’

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Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘I am striving to…
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…fill my heart with deeper crimson’

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Post-Lycius’ awakening - Love and suffering:

  • ‘a deeper crimson…
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…and a double smart’

45
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Post-Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘How to entangle, …
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…trammel up and snare your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there’

46
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Post-Lycius’ awakening:

  • ‘hid scent…
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…in an unbudded rose’

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Lycius’ hubris?:

  • ‘What mortal hath a prize, …
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…that other men / May be confounded and abashed withal.’

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Lycius’ hubris?:

  • Lycius wishes to let his love ‘pace abroad…
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…majestically, and triumph’

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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘the lady’s cheek…
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…trembled’

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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘she nothing said…
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…pale and meek’

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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘knelt before him, …
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…wept a rain of sorrows at his words.’

52
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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘at last with pain…
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…beseeching him…to change his purpose.’

53
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Reinforcement of Lycius’ new hubris:

  • ‘with stronger fancy…
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…to reclaim / Her wild and timid nature to his aim.’

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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘He took delight…
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…luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.’

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Lamia’s love and suffering - Lycius’ hubris:

  • ‘His passion, cruel grown…
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…took on a hue / Fierce and sanguineous’

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The marriage:

  • Lamia ‘Had not…
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…a friend.’

57
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The marriage:

  • ‘knowing surely she could…
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…never win / His foolish heart from its mad pompousness’

58
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The marriage:

  • ‘The misery in…
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…first magnificence.’

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The marriage:

  • ‘There was a noise of wings…
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…till in short space/ The glowing banquet-room shone with wide archèd grace’

60
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The marriage:

  • ‘A haunting music, …
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…/ Supportress of the faery-roof’

Is supportress feminised?

61
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The marriage:

  • ‘fearful the…
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…whole charm might fade’

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The marriage:

  • ‘mimicking…
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…a glade / Of palm and plantain’

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The marriage:

  • ‘two palms…
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…and then two plantains, and so on’

  • An attempt to regulate nature.
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The marriage:

  • ‘an untasted…
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…feast, / Teeming with odours’

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The marriage (love and suffering):

  • Lamia: ‘in pale contented…
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…sort of discontent.’

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The marriage:

  • ‘dreadful guests…
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…would come to spoil her solitude’

67
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The marriage:

  • ‘O senseless Lycius!…
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…Madman!’

68
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The marriage:

  • ‘wherefore flout…
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… / The silent-blessing fate’

69
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The marriage:

  • ‘Twas Apollonius: something too he laughed, …
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…As though some knotty problem…had now begun to thaw, / And solve and melt’

70
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The marriage:

  • Appolonius: ‘yet must I do this wrong…
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…and you forgive me.’

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The marriage:

  • ‘the sophist’s…
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…spleen.’

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The marriage:

  • ‘twelve sphered…
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…tables’

73
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The marriage:

  • The tables ‘each shrining in the midst…
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…the image of God’

  • Keats opposed Dogmatism and uninspired orthodox thought.
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The marriage:

  • ‘they all moved…
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…to the feast / In white robes.’

75
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The marriage:

  • ‘awful richness, …
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…nectarous cheer, / beautiful slaves and Lamia’s self.’

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Post-wedding:

  • ‘Upon her aching forehead…
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…be there hung / The leaves of willow and adder’s tongue.’

  • adder’s tongue = type of fern.
77
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Post-wedding:

  • ‘Let spear-grass and…
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…the spiteful thistle wage / War on his temples.’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘there was an awful rainbow…
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…once in heaven’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘we know her woof, …
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…her texture’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘she is given…
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… / In the dull catalogue of common things.’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘Philosophy will clip…
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…and Angel’s wings’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘Conquer all mysteries…
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…by rule and line’

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Rainbow:

  • ‘Conquer all mysteries…
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…by rule and line’

84
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Rainbow:

  • ‘Unweave…
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…a rainbow’

85
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Rainbow:

  • ‘made the tender-personed Lamia…
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…melt into shade’

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Post-wedding:

  • ‘Brow-beating her…
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…fair form, and troubling her sweet pride’

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Post-wedding:

  • ‘‘Twas icy, and…
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…the cold ran though his veins’

88
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Post-wedding:

  • ‘all the pains…
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… / Of an unnatural heat shot to his heart’

89
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Post-wedding:

  • ‘He gazed into her eyes…
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…and not a jot / Owned they the lovelorn piteous appeal’

90
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Post-wedding:

  • ‘A deadly silence step by step…
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… Increased ‘

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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘‘Lamia!’ He shrieked; …
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…and nothing but the shriek / With its sad echo did the silence break.’

92
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘where now no azure vein…
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…Wandered on fair-spaced temples; no soft bloom / Misted the cheek.’

93
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘All was blight; …
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…Lamia, no longer fair, there sat a deadly white.’

94
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘For all thine…
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…impious proud-heart sophistries.’

95
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘Mark how, possessed, …
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…his lashless eyelids stretch / Around his demon eyes!’

96
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘Whose dreadful images…
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… / Here represent their shadowy presences’

  • Plato’s cave? Anti-orthodoxy/dogmatism.
97
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘My sweet bride…
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…withers at their potency.’

98
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Lamia’s death:

  • Lycius ‘sank supine beside…
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…the aching ghost.’

99
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘heart-struck…
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…and lost’

100
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘Fool!…
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…Fool!’

101
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘From every ill / Of life…
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…have I preserved thee to this day, / And shall I see thee made a serpent’s prey?’

102
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘the sophist’s eye, …
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… / Like a sharp spear, went through her utterly’

103
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘Keen, cruel…
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…perceant, stinging’

104
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘he weak hand…
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… / Motioned him to be silent; vainly so’

105
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘With a frightful…
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…scream she vanishèd’

106
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘Lycius’ arms…
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…were empty of delight, / As were his limbs of life’

107
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Lamia’s death:

  • ‘no pulse, or breath they found, …
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… And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.’

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