Psyche Analysis

Author: Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Type: Poetry Views: 577

The butterfly the ancient Grecians made
The soul's fair emblem, and its only name--
But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade
Of mortal life !--For in this earthly frame
Ours is the reptile's lot, much toil, much blame,
Manifold motions making little speed,
And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.

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The butterfly was for the Egyptians (and Greeks, as Coleridge suggests here) a symbol of the soul. Coleridge refers to this by pointing to the Greek word 'psuche', which both means soul and butterfly. The soul is able to escape from all earthly, changing, mortal things, just as Psyche was in Apuleius' Metamorphosis given the drink of the Gods by Zeus, so she could live among the gods and be immortal. She was the last human being to enter this realm.

| Posted on 2005-04-18 | by Approved Guest

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