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Keats's LAMIA.(John Keats)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010622
Author:PARRY, SUSAN

Scholars have apparently overlooked the way that Keats incorporates into his poem Lamia plants whose names and meanings enhance the themes and imagery of the work; for example, his description of Hermes visiting an island in search of "A nymph" (14) before "the Dryads and the Fauns [were frightened away] / From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns" (5-6). The appearance of cowslips in the opening scene of Lamia sets the tone of the poem and is a sign of the actions to come, not only because Dryads and Fauns are believed to have been driven away by Oberon, King of the ...

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