FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN KEATS
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Question
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He’s bored
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He’s looking for Lamia
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He’s chasing a nymph
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He’s on his way to Corinth
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the “Lamia” poem, the Greek god Hermes has fallen in love with a nymph who he believes is hiding from him. While Hermes roams the woods searching for his nymph, he encounters a serpent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The nymph becomes visible to Hermes; the serpent turns into a beautiful woman and disappears. Lamia, the serpent-turned-woman, while in her serpent state, had the power to send her spirit wherever she wished.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lamia, a poem by John Keats, is about a serpent who, after being changed back into a woman by the god Hermes, falls in love with a human man. Hermes had fallen madly in love with a forest nymph and the “ever smitten Hermes empty left/ His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft” (Keats 7-8).
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem tells how the god Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across Lamia, trapped in the form of a serpent. She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and in return he restores her human form.
Detailed explanation-5: -The main theme of the poem concerns the tension between appearance and reality. Lamia’s beauty is superficial and destructive. However, Keats seems ambivalent about the coldly scientific attitude expressed by Apollonius.