FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN KEATS
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mournful
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sweet
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sombre
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miserable
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker is a beautiful serpent. She tells Hermes that she knows he seeks a nymph and offers to make the nymph, to whom she has given the power of invisibility, visible to him providing he will restore to her her woman’s body.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Lamia, narrative poem in rhymed couplets by John Keats, written in 1819 and first published in 1820 in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.
Detailed explanation-4: -“I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes, “Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks, “And, swiftly as a bright Phoebean dart, “Strike for the Cretan isle; and here thou art!