Abuyi

• Last seen on Oct 5 6:53 AM. Member since January 29.
• I am a 19 year old guy (Bahrain)
• When I'm not writing, I'm aircraft engineer in trainee.
• I have 6 comments, 173 poems, 1 philosophy

My other items

• Too late to realize at allpoetry
  now its too late
  i never knew that someone would lose a tear
• love poem at allpoetry
  When the sunshine’s on my face the first thing I would like to see is your face.
  Smiling curves like those rays I would like to see them riding your angelic face.
• Ode to Nigthingale at allpoetry
  Was there a bird like a nightingale?
  who sings ancient tales

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• on Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be by John Keats, on April 10

  sir keats knew he was going to die because of his illness and was also familiar with the pain of death.. he lost his parents in early age. thats why i feel in most of his write he declares death in beauty.. as if he is preparing himself to welcome it as beautifully as life could.
• on So You Want To Be A Writer by Charles Bukowski, on January 30

  this poem speaks to me
• on Lamia. Part I by John Keats, on January 29

  this is one of the best tales i read. i had no idea of the greek gods when i read this but later on i had to find out the tales to understand and appreciate. it has no relation with the greeks but it started by hermis. by the end of the book one i was astonished and eager to know.
  
  here is some notes i made on it and a summary
  
  Lamia-by John Keats
  
  "In ancient demonology, a 'lamia' -- pronounced la' mi a -- was a monster in woman's form who preyed on human beings" .The term has also meant "a witch who was supposed to suck children's blood, a sorceress, also, a kind of flatfish, a species of owl, a fabulous monster, also, a fish of prey". According to the first -- and most widely used -- definition a lamia is "a fabulous monster supposed to have the body of a woman, and to prey upon human beings and suck the blood of children. Also, a witch, she demon"
  
  Character sketch
  
  Lamia: In the poem, sir Keats shows lamia as a serpent that has a woman’s head on the snake’s body. These phrases shows her physical appearance
  “She was a gordian shape of dazzling hue,
  Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue;
  Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard,
  Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
  And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed,
  Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed
  Their lustres with the gloomier tapestries -
  So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
  She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
  Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
  Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire
  Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar:
  Her head was serpent, but ah, bitter-sweet!
  She had a woman's mouth with all its pearls complete:
  And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there
  But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?
  As Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air.
  Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
  Came, as through bubbling honey”
  
  In the poem
  "Lamia is an enchantress, a liar, and a calculating expert in amour; but she apparently intends no harm, is genuinely in love, and is very beautiful"
  she has an ability, she can send her spirit any place she willed and she can forecast her dreams and see others dreams too
  
  Lycius: he is the handsome young man, to which lamia had fallen in love with. He is an educated man of his time,
  “Thou art a scholar”, he is well known in his country and is loved by everyone.
  
  Hermes: a Greek god, god of trickery, who have stolen light from mount Olympus and came and hid in the shores of Crete. He has feather shoes in which he can fly. Hermes took an oath to give lamia a woman’s body and take her to her lover lycius.
  
  Appollonius: he is a philosopher of his country, he has a curl’d gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown, slow stepped, and robed in philosophic gown. He knew the secret of lamia, and lamia was scared from him. In later part of the poem he un-covers lamia’s secret
  
  Part two (brief analysis)
  
  In first stanza, the intensity of lamia and lycius love is expressed beyond non-elect to understand, their love so intense, it has crossed the borders of normality and reality. So unbelievable that Cupid himself would have been mad at such an inhuman sight
  
  Second stanza, it tells about he love making of lycius and lamia, After having spent time in their chamber, Lamia further pulls Lycius out of reality with sweet words doubting her lover's love, Lycius shows how much indeed he is in love with Lamia (note: this shows Lycius determination) he believe that it is too good to be true. Later on he describes his intention to marry her. (Note: lycius still doesn’t know the name of lamia, which shows he is not in state of mind)
  Later on she weeps and lure lycius to himself (note: at this point, lamia had really fallen in love with lycius and assure that lycius also loved her) lamia-loved lycius as a woman not as a serpent.
  Then she tells to lycius that she doesn’t have parent or any friends, any lycius can invite as many guest at the marriage except Appollonius, to which lycius agreed but in deep thought he was thinking why she was so scared by him? With this final statement, Lycius begins to fall completely out of reality and into Lamia's own illusion thus by the lines
  “Feigning a sleep; and he to the dull shade
  Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd.”
  
  Third stanza, first lines says about the early customs to bring the bride in a chariot, but lamia dint had any friends, so she was alone in the house, where lycius went for the preparing his marriage festivities.
  While lamia was high thoughted, how to dress in her bride clothes, knowing that she cant win his heart by her lies. She has these thoughts of her wedding.
  She imagines her wedding, its surroundings and that she would be really happy, but she has these strange feelings that it won’t last longer and would end up in dire and the guest would come to spoil her solitude.
  The last 2 lines in the 3rd stanza, shows that she does not want the wedding guests to arrive, as they may break her solitude, as in her having to face her true reality of becoming a human, and maybe break her own illusion.
  
  Note: this might link to her insecurity, of lycius knowing the truth of her being a serpent and loosing her love.
  
  Fourth stanza, the day of marriage appeared, all the gossip of lycius madness had spread. Every one had appeared to the royal porch, all amazed and curious and keen, only appollonius was not amazed and entered the royal porch with a patient thought and a smiling face as if he had foreseen this day.
  
  Note:
  • Lamia had mesmerized lycius on her love, in such extent that lycius doesn’t care about anything else
  • Lycius doesn’t even know lamia’s name
  • Lamia is insecure that her secret would be uncovered and she would lose her love
  • Lamia and lycius really loved each other
  • Appollonius was the philosopher of that town and he knew the secret of lamia Lamia's physical beauty is also excessive. Men are driven to weeping at the fairness of her eyes. Even nature is affected by this beauty, for it was said that while a serpent, the grass withered at the sweetness and virulence of Lamia's foam (I.148,149). When Lamia comes to be with Lycius, their union is excessive and powerful. Love itself grows jealous (II.12). And when Lamia is identified and betrayed by Apollonius, it is not only she who dies but Lycius also.
  
  
  
• on Ode To Autumn by John Keats, on January 29

  this is one of my fav poems form john keats. autumn a season of death. where the songs of spring?
  beautiful
  To autumn
  By John Keats
  
  To Autumn written at Winchester, 19 September 1819. First published in 1820.
  
  This ode deals with the some of the concerns presented in his other odes, but there are also significant differences. (1) There is no visionary dreamer or attempted flight from reality in this poem; in fact, there is no narrative voice or persona at all. The poem is grounded in the real world; the vivid, concrete imagery immerses the reader in the sights, feel, and sounds of autumn and its progression. (2) With its depiction of the progression of autumn, the poem is an unqualified celebration of process. Keats totally accepts the natural world, with its mixture of ripening, fulfilment, dying, and death. Each stanza integrates suggestions of its opposite or its predecessors, for they are inherent in autumn also.
  As the ode goes ahead, the movement in time can be felt