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Keats, Lamia

John Keats Lamia is an extraordinary poem that follows the Romantic tendency to present a pantheistic view of good and evil. Thereby good and evil are not absolutes, they are matters of perspective and interpretation. What Keats adds to the general portrait of his contemporaries is not the association of the women with the serpent/Satan (in Milton's account the victim and the villain) - as we have seen, Coleridge had already done that by making Geraldine a victimized villain/ victimizing sufferer - it is the way in which he introduces the figure of Hermes, the emissary of the gods. In Keats' poem, Hermes follows a similarly pantheistic portrait. Hermes is an important figure because he is associated with healing as well as interpretation. Keats plays with these conventional associations. Rather than following the convention of conveying messages from the gods, Keats' Hermes is induced, in exchange for an amorous encounter, to speak and to swear by the feminine serpent to 'heal' it and return it to the form of a woman so that she might love a Corinthian youth by the name of Lycius. She succeeds in her intent, and the love spell that transforms her into a woman and her beloved Lycius into her adoring husband is only broken by the cold, literalistic philosopher Apollonius, whose appelation of her as "Lamia" not only causes her to disappear once more, but her youthful lover Lycius to die. Keats's engagement with this topic draws our attention to the central role of hermeneutics in a pantheistic worldview. ❤️ If you find my channel helpful, become a channel member:    / drscottmasson   To support my channel and assist me in providing better content, please go here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=...