_
Metaphor
of a sea-shell giving an impression of
exquisite colour and delicate form.
Keats
But the gods and
all nature helped her, and in process of time she was
re-united to Love, forgiven by Venus, and made immortal by the
Father of gods and men.'
Psyche is supposed to symbolize the human soul made immortal through
love.
NOTES ON THE ODE TO PSYCHE.
PAGE 117. l. 2. _sweet . . . dear._ Cf. _Lycidas_, 'Bitter constraint
and sad occasion dear.'
l. 4. _soft-conched.
_
Metaphor
of a sea-shell giving an impression of
exquisite colour and delicate form.
PAGE 118. l. 13. _'Mid . . . eyed._ Nature in its appeal to every sense.
In this line we have the essence of all that makes the beauty of flowers
satisfying and comforting.
l. 14. _Tyrian_, purple, from a certain dye made at Tyre.
