Lamia Flashcards
(14 cards)
“Convulséd with scarlet pain”
Lamia’s sacrifice for Lycius
“Woman’s mouth with all its pearls complete”
Snake form - greed, unnatural, sexuality
“Lustres with gloomier tapestries”
Anti-romantic, snake form, man made equated to natural world
“Spoilt all her silver mail, golden brede”
Lamia’s masculine power as a snake, loss of power as she turns human, foreshadowing of conflict
“I am a woman let me once more have a woman’s shape”
Irony, lamia going against nature, emphasis on female “shape” and sexuality
“Flowers too rough”
Anti- romantic, tunnel vision in love
“Guests would come to spoil her solitude”
Sibilance foreshadowing Lamia’s downfall, tragic isolation - subversion?
“Bloom’d and gave up her honey to the lees”
Nymph- power dynamics of gender, sexuality as tangible, objectification of women connecting with nature “ self folding like a flower”
“He took delight Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new”
“She burnt she loved the tyranny”
Male sexuality, taking pleasure in the innocent and virginal “perverse”- mirrors Hermes. Sexual compatibility and the deepening of the couples connection
“Old Apollonius from him keep me hid”
“She faded at self will”
Connections between Lamia and the nymph as Lamia finds herself equally serving the pleasures of a more powerful man
“The roof of awful richness” “God Bacchus at meridian height” “vales deflowered”
Anti-romantic excess deceit manipulation classical reference links to sexuality
Philosophy will clip an angels wings”
Keats message
“In its marriage robe the heavy body wound” “she vanishéd”
Ambiguous end of lamia/ death of Lycius
“The lady ever watchful penetrant”
Lamias manipulation, aloofness, villainy?
