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| has gloss | eng: "Lamia" is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats. The poem, written in 1819, tells how the God Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across a Lamia, trapped in the form of a serpent. She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and in return he restores her human form. She goes to seek a youth of Corinth, Lycius, while Hermes and his nymph depart together into the woods. The relationship between Lycius and Lamia, however, is destroyed when the sage Apollonius reveals Lamia's true identity at their wedding feast, whereupon she returns to her serpent state and Lycius dies of grief. The poem explores Keatsian themes such as the tension between reason and sensation, and the illusory but potentially redemptive quality of poetry and love. |
| lexicalization | eng: Lamia |
| instance of | (noun) literature in metrical form poetry, verse, poesy |
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| has gloss | spa: Lamia es un poema narrativo escrito por el poeta inglés John Keats. |
| lexicalization | spa: Lamia |
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