Lamia part 2 Flashcards
How is love described?
“Love in a hut…is… cinders, ashes, dust” Love is transient, their love is intense and blinds logic but also impermeant
all things must pass.
What is said about Lycius and his story?
“Had Lycius lived to hand his story down, he might have given the moral a fresh frown”
Lycius would warn of Lamia’s tempting nature, Keats saying he cant say what Lycius would say as he’s dead- mock humility.
What is said about their short lived nature of their love?
“Too short was their bliss, to breed distrust and hate, that make the soft voice hiss”
Bliss was so short, they couldn’t hate each other, soft voice hiss link to palpitating snake.
What is said about they’re perfect love?
“Love, jealous grown of so complete a pair”
Love itself is jealous of them, they’ve reached perfection, moments of happiness are rare.
What quote shows that their love is unmanageable?
“Where use had made it sweet with eyelids closed, saving a tyhe which love still open kept, that they might see each other while they almost slept.”
Cannot bear to not see each other, height of romantic poetry, beautiful but unsustainable.
What’s a quote showing the disruption of their natural world to their love?
“Deafening the swallows twitter, came a thrill of trumpets- Lycius started- the sounds fled, but left a thought a buzzing in his head”
disruption from the natural world-reminding him he had a life before Lamia, snap him out of reverie.
What oxymoron is used to signify their relationship?
“That purple lined palace of sweet sin”
Oxymoron-relationship is sinful and unnatural- cannot last.
reference to sensuality and regality.
What quote is said about a moment’s thought?
“A moment’s thought is passions passing bell”
logic will destroy their love, no time to think.
pertinent comment to make about human nature.
What quote is said about Lamia’s eyes?
“He answered, bending to her open eyes, where he was mirrored small in paradise”
importance of eyes, she’s utterly obsessed with him, seen as obsessive and dangerous but x villainous.
Tenderness to her obsession.
Whats a quote revealing Lamia’s attempt to be human?
“She nothing said but pale and meek, arose and knelt before him, wept a rain of sorrows at his words.”
Appears to be submissive and is thoroughly upset, foreshadowing.
Trying to seem like conventional women, her attempt to be human.
What is a quote about Lamia’s nature?
“Her wild and timid nature”
oxymoron again- Lamia is multifaceted/ multitude of possibilities, behaviour is not human.
What is a quote showing Lamia embracing gender dynamics?
“She burnt, she loved the tyranny, and, all subdued, consented to the hour”
Loves the tyranny, embraces gender dynamics feels more human.
consented as she’s aware of fate, already digested the notion it wont last
What does Lycius say about Lamia’s name?
“Hast any mortal name fit appellation for this dazzling frame?”
there is no name you could have that would match your beauty.
What does Lamia say about her friends?
“I have no friends”
Appeals to sympathy, done to herself, turns back on nymph to devote love to Lycius, she is isolated but come about from what she desired, she needs other support.
What quotes is there about a “charm”?
“As fearful the whole charm might fade”
Charm is temporary, it is inevitable it will fail.
“Do not all charms fly, at the mere touch of cold philosophy”
notion of the charm, she is going to dissapear.
How is Lamia described at the end of the poem?
“Then Lamia breath’s death breath, the sophist’s eye, like a sharp spear, went through her utterly, keen, cruel, perceant, stinging”
listing of cruel things, 4 ways Apollonius brings end to Lamia.
How is Lycius described at the end of the poem?
“No pulse or breath they found, and in it’s marriage robe, the heavy body wound”
Irony is he’s wound up like she was in “Wreathed tomb”
What are some quotes used regarding Appolonius?
“Philosophy will clip an angels wings”
“Do not bid old Apollonius- from him keep me hid”
