lamia

• The ever smitten Hermes empty left His golden throne,bent warm on amorous theft


  Blind pursuit of the Nymph from a position of status. Creates a sense of desire and passion.
• Blushed into roses mid his golden hair Fallen into jealous curls


  connotes a sense of love and desire. Furthermore there are warning signs of this desire manifesting jealous hence there is danger in desire
• Wreathed tomb


  Lamia's snake form forces her into a state of entrapment
• Gordian shape of dazzling hue,vermillion spotted


  Lamia as beautiful and enticing hence blinding Lycius to his downfall
• Some penanced lady elf, some demons mistress

  femme fatale nature of women and imaginations superiority over rational thought
• Nothing but pain and ugliness were left'


  suffering and loss of identity Lamia endures as her genuine love for Lycius blinds her
• And by my power is her beauty veiled


  Lamia's agency as a tragic villain in her treatment of the Nymph to escape entrapment
• Give me my woman's form and place me where he is


  error of judgement and allows the reader to understand her vilainous actions are for genuine love
• Nor grew they pale, as mortal lovers do


  suggests the idea of this couple staying immortal and therefore together forever compared to Lamia giving it up for a mortal love that will never last
• The young Corinthian Lycius Charioting foremost in the envious race


  presented as a figure of greatness central in society conflicting their private and secret romance
• He would return that way,as well she knew


  Lamia's obsession with Lycius heightened through her knowledge of his schedule
• The amorous promise of her lone complain pale with pain


  passionate love presented as driving characters to sickness echoing Isabella
• The cruel lady Thus gentle Lamia judged,and judged aright That Lycius could not love in half a fright


  Keats comment on Lamia portraying her as villainous in her manipulation as she weakens herself for him
• Tangled in her mesh


  entrapping and manipulating Lycius inevitably resulting in suffering
• His eyes had drunk her beauty up'


  'had' creates the sense of a fateful demise from his blindness
• He never thought to know


  Lycius losing his identity as a thinker to Lamia as his logic is blinded by passion
• The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams


  suggests eternal pain from falling for Lamia
• But too short was their bliss To breed distrust and hate,that made the soft voice hiss


  bittersweet idea of Lycius' ignorance of Lamia being his downfall as her beauty blinds him. Subtle use of 'hiss' - metaphorical snake
• Do not bid Old Apollonius


  Lamia is aware of the reality that could disrupt their delusional relationship
• veiled ,in a chariot


  motif of warning for staying entrapped and hidden as her identity is secret
• O senseless Lycius!Madman!


  keats comment of Lycius' blindness suggesting the reader should feel frustrated by this
• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings'


  suggests the pain of knowing therefore fantasy is better than reality.
• Of an unnatural heat shot to his heart


  Lycius' downfall and the betrayal magnified by the idea of being shot
• Than with a frightful scream she vanished


  Lamia doesn't die however her lost of Lycius and her identity indicates her demise/suffering
• Lycius arms were empty of delight in its marriage robe the heavy body wound 


  death and downfall has manifested itself and highlights his error of judgement of falling in love with Lamia