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| | Swann - "Shelley's Pod People" - Romanticism and the Insistence of the Aesthetic - Praxis Series - Romantic ... |
 | | Where these images are identified with motion, mutability, transference—the movement of trope and verse itself—the perpetual dreamers of this passage, with their factitious, arresting glamour, resist metamorphosis, the poetic turn, and all the transformative practices and values we have come to associate with Shelley's poetry. |
 | | For the Witch herself, the Image is less an object of fixation than a way to keep moving: she peremptorily commands it to "Sit here!" in her boat (xxxvii); at her command "Hermaphroditus" (the only time it is named) it spreads its wings and flies her upstream, where she and the poem abandon it (xliii). |
 | | Struck by his beauty, she propositions him; he rebuffs her advances; she retreats into the woods but stays to observe him; he, "as if no one were looking at him," strips and bathes in her pool; incited by his beautiful form, she jumps into the pool after him and clings to his body. |
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