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Keats Critical context - Coggle Diagram
Keats Critical context
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Lamia- David Perkins
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no heroes/villains, showing Keats’ ambivalence
Keats suggests in "Lamia" that life cannot be approached through dogma, that the resistance to dogma is necessary for humans to live fully and remain open to all possibilties
"Keats's mind,"David Perkins writes was the least dogmatic it is possible to be
Lamia's is a frightened, selfish love that would keep its object from growing up in order to continue to posses it
Lamia offers "an escape from process to pure bliss, unmingled with sorrow"
Lycius cannot escape to the cretan Elysium" "but he can live in Cornth fully engaged with his own fantasies and without sharing the life around him"
"Only Apollonius, of all the people at the feast, remains fixed in the realities of mortal existence, refusing to enter or share the dream
La Belle and Lamia may be viewed as exploring the Romantic hope to intuit and imaginatively participate in a happier realm of being
Lycius, like all mortals, are bound by our "critical intelligence." Humans simply do not appear to have the ability to disengage from consequitive reasoning