L for Ligeia
Lydian Ligeia didn't last
would she have given up forbidden wisdom
in exchange for lyterian?
Allan gulps in lypemania
Allan gulps in lypemania
as she sleeps underneath the earth
where a lychgate stands
even in her lysis she lies lyncean
- Hazel, Stasia Desiderata
Ligeia is a story about female beauty, intelligence, human mortality and opium-induced hallucinations of resurrection, by Edgar Allan Poe. Trust Poe to weave brilliant tales out of his drunken episodes. Now we have film adaptations as well as moments of literary luxury listening to his genius, The Conqueror Worm.
In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream – an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumber... (source)
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Poe was one awesome, talented, troubled artist...
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI have to laugh at getting an opium-dream intervention into one of the more bureaucratic moments of my day.
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of a wild dream and post. Lots of L words not commonly used.
ReplyDeleteI Like Learning on people's blogs - thanks for bringing me L for Ligeia.
ReplyDeleteI'd never heard of this poor lady who seems to have come to a sticky end. But it all sounds very Poe-ish to me.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is Lydian - or specifically, Lydia.
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
I learned something new !
ReplyDeleteGattina
ABC Team
What a great choice for the letter L.
ReplyDeleteI have often wondered what drugs he was on...
ReplyDeleteGreat post
I read he was fond of absinthe, and I roamed Bangkok for the green liquid. Silly fan.
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