inevitability, conflict + opposition

• when from this wreathed tomb shall i awake! when move in a sweet body fit for a life, and love and pleasure, and the ruddy strife of hearts and lips'


  entrapment, enclosed away from others, denied life and human experiences, mourning sensuous images
• she was a gordian shape of dazzling hue'


  knot, complicated, deceptive, dazzling array of imagery makes her seem ethereal or alluring
• some demon's mistress or the demon's self'


  idea of femme fatale, something evil hidden behind the alluring beauty, juxtaposing previous imagery of beautiful colours
• her head was a serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet! she had a woman's mouth with all its pearls complete'


  described as an impossible creature, otherworldly, clearly not in human world despite human features due to changeability of her form
• real are the dreams of gods, smoothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream'


  reminded of danger of gods powers, possible danger toward mortals, also gods thrive on dreams as all pleasures are easily accessible- foreshadows failure of couple due to opposing worlds
• into the green-recessed woods they flew; nor they grew pale, as mortal lovers do'


  foreshadowing/warning, shows must stay in own world, desire for youth as mortals must grow old and die unlike lamia
• ah, happy lycius! - for she was a maid more beautiful than ever twisted braid'


  narrative irony, shows lycius will be happy with lamia (temporary enjoyment), but will lead to demise, duality of lamia being femme fatale and innocent
• a virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore of love deep learned to the red heart's core'


  lamia as pure and innocent, expectations of womanhood- must be innocent but have knowledge of love etc
• why this fair creature chose so faerily by the wayside to linger, we shall see'


  beginning of the stanza- seduction of lycius begins, narrator guides reader w/ flashback to explain why she wants lycius
• and sometimes into cities would she send her dream'


  immortal powers, desire to be mortal, previous warning tone of her mixing with godly setting and deciding on mortal world
• and once, while among mortals dreaming thus, she saw the young corinthian lycius, charioting foremost in the envious race... and fell into a swooning love of him'


  ambition and intelligence of lycius, seems to fit into her world with god-like experience ('like a young jove'), her sudden and intense desire, entrapping her
• jove heard his and better'd his desire; for by some freakful chance he made retire from his companions, and set forth to walk'


  gods/fates leading lycius on the path toward lamia, set in stone, steered toward his demise, trapped from before their first meeting
• his fantasy was lost, where reason fades'


  young and impressionable frame of mind, already compromised before their encounter, lost in imagination so he walks past her
• she stood: he passed, shut up in mysteries, his mind wrapped like his mantle'


  he's so trapped in his thoughts he ignores lamia and walks past her, almost escapes his fate
• but orpheus-like at an eurydice'


  foreshadowing their fate, danger, keats uses another tragedy to warm of their doomed relationship
• even as thou vanishest so i shall die'


  lycius already enslaved by her, foreshadowing of his death
• thy memory will waste me to a shade'


  lycius explaining the effect of her absense will have on him, subconsciously aware desire will result in death but ignores it due to lust
• thou art a scholar, lycius, and must know that finer spirits cannot breathe below in human climes'


  lamia knows she can't survive on earth, suffers from self-blinding as she lacks awareness of consequences
• the cruel lady... put her lips to his, and gave afresh the life she has so tangled in her mesh'


  kisses him to further entrap him, resigns him to his fate, seems like she's playing with him w/ femme fatale like description
• and as he from one trance was wakening into another, she began to sing... a song of love, too sweet for earthly lyres'


  lamia ensuring to lure him in to a trance, one of love and romance to keep him enthralled with her, showcasing their opposing natures as she uses otheworldly methods
• for lamia's eagerness made, by a spell, the tripe league decrease to a few paces; not at all surmised by blinded lycius so in her comprised'


  lycius lacks agency as he allows himself to be ensared + blinded to world outside of spell, in private space
• muttered, like tempest in the distance brewed'


  corinth, public setting, unsettling, shows impossibility of relationship due to differing world
• as one came near with curl'd grey beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown, slow-stepped, and robed in philosophic gown'


  apollonius introduction, foreshadows later influence on their relationship, shows his ability to see through lamia's magic
• tis apollonius sage, my trusty guide and good instructor; but tonight he seems the ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams'


  passion= blinding, allows lycius to ignore reason, partial acknowledgement of folly as he has lost his glimmer (dreams of lamia), foreshadows apollonius shattering illusion
• while yet he spake they had arrived before a pillared porch'


  hidden palace created by lamia, a wonderful space, full of secrecy as it bars them from the outside world, can indulge in each other
• and but the flitter-winged verse must tell, for truth's sake, what woe afterwards befell, twould humour many a heart to leave them thus, shut from the busy world, of more incredulous'


  hint of the following events, should've stayed hidden forever- in order to keep love alive, dramatic irony
• love in a hut, with water and crust, is... cinder, ashes, dust; love in a palace is perhaps at last more grievous torment than a hermit's fast'


  narrator shows how there's an imminent terrible ending coming, triplet adds to sense of finality shows how love won't last no matter where they are
• but too short was their bliss'


  narrator's cynical view, clearly tells the reader of their following doom
• love, jealous grown of so complete a pair, hover'd and buzz'd his wings, with fearful roar, above the lintel of their chamber door'


  love is personified, as if fate is declaring their love can't carry on
• for all this came a ruin'


  narratorial intrusion, clear statement of their relationships imminent failure
• when from he slope side of a suburb hill, deafening the swallow's twitter, came a thrill of trumpets'


  rude intrusion of noise from the mortal world, action that causes their downfall
• lycius started - the sounds fled, but left a thought, a buzzing in his head'


  lycius' flaw that contributes to his error, desire of wanting power and acknowledgement
• for the first time, since first he harbour'd in that purple-lined palace of sweet sin, his spirit passed beyond its golden bourne into the noisy world almost forsworn'


  the folly of man, shows his clear opposition to lamia as she had a clear thought out plan while he acts upon a whim, connected by their controlling passionate intensity
• do not bid old apollonius - from him keep me hid'


  lamia gives her only condition when agreeing to marry lycius, clear rule that will inevitably be broken
• approving all, she faded at self-will'


  anticipates when lamia is forced to fade by apollonius at end, trying to hide her true self from the 'dreadful guests
• o senseless lycius! madman! wherefore flout the silent-blessing fate, warm cloistered hours, and show to common eyes these secret bowers'


  narratorial comments on allowing public into their private space, allowing the public to invade due to his pride
• save one, who looked thereon with eye severe... twas apollonius'


  the arrival of apollonius, signals the ending is near, why has he arrived?
• twas just as he foresaw'


  link to lamia, prophetic abilities, signals unwinding of the couple's lives
• what wreath for lamia? what for lycius'


  intro of conflict of reason and fantasy due to outer forces, wreath= symbol of victory and fertility
• do not all charms fly at the mere touch of philosophy?'


  cold and passionless rationality is opposed by freedom and imagination but is indisputable when they meet