Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
Keats
350-4. Keats brings the very atmosphere of a dream about us
in these lines, and makes us hear the murmur of the city as something
remote from the chief actors.
l. 352. _lewd_, ignorant. The original meaning of the word which came
later to mean dissolute.
PAGE 24. l. 360. _corniced shade._ Cf. _Eve of St. Agnes_, ix,
'Buttress'd from moonlight.'
ll. 363-77.
Note the feeling of fate in the first
appearance
of
Apollonius.
PAGE 25. l. 377. _dreams._ Lycius is conscious that it is an illusion
even whilst he yields himself up to it.
l. 386. _Aeolian._ Aeolus was the god of the winds.
PAGE 26. l. 394. _flitter-winged._ Imagining the poem winging its way
along like a bird. _Flitter_, cf.