lamia

• The green eyed monster that thou mocks the meat it feeds on is a metaphor for jealousy.
• I have done my office is a phrase that means I have completed my tasks.
• He has a daily beauty in his life that I lack is a phrase that means he has something that I don't.
• Keats is reported to have toasted 'confusion to the memory of Newton' at a dinner with Wordsworth, criticizing Newton for reducing the poetry of the rainbow to a prism.
• In 'Lamia', Keats wrote: 'Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?'.
• Keats describes a 'tender-person'd Lamia' in 'Lamia', symbolizing her beauty and mysticism.
• Lamia is described as 'shrinking, trembling' at the sight of A, foreshadowing her tragic inevitability and power of foresight.
• In 'Lamia', Keats criticizes philosophy for 'unweaving the rainbow', arguing that it destroys beauty even though it shows fact and beauty.
• Keats portrays A as a 'foul and dream-haunting ghost', symbolizing his power to turn Lycius' dream world and desired reality into a nightmare.
• Lycius is described as 'pale with pain' when Lamia says adieu, foreshadowing his pain when she disappears and his death in his 'marriage robes'.
• Lamia is described as 'a woman like Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air', symbolizing her unhappy state and her desire to be a woman like Ariadne.
• Lamia is compared to Ariadne, who was abandoned by Theseus, foreshadowing her betrayal by Lycius.
• Lamia is described as 'golden green and blue', symbolizing her beauty and allure.
• Lycius is enchanted by Lamia's beauty and calls her 'goddess', symbolizing his blindness to her true identity.
• Lamia desires to be a woman like 'Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air', symbolizing her unhappy state and her desire to be a woman like Ariadne.
• Lamia is described as 'sapphires, amethyst, rubiousargent', symbolizing her beauty and allure.
• Lamia is described as 'like ariadne's tiar', symbolizing her beauty and allure.