Attracted physically to the lovely Frau Chauchat, he swings between
lustfulness and erudition without nurturing his creative side, even when inspired by love in the snow scene and once again powerfully when listening to Schubert's Linden Tree.
In Vivien Tennyson gives Enid's antithesis: "the evil genius of the Round Table--who in her
lustfulness of the flesh could not believe in anything either good or great." (34) In Elaine, he depicts a would-be Enid, a maiden whose inability to fulfill herself in marriage reprises not only "The Lady of Shalott" but also "Mariana" in Elaine's repetitive "burthen": "Him or death," "death or him" (ll.
For him, their nakedness was an invitation to
lustfulness, and descriptions of whole families living naked in great huts side by side with other naked families aroused horror and suspicions of incestuous practices.
In the same play, when Iuventus has fallen into
lustfulness and Abhominable Living appears, Hypocrisy addresses her as 'Unknown Honesty' (p.
He then appeared to take full responsibility, blaming his own "
lustfulness and weakness".
This is not about encouraging
lustfulness among teenagers - it is simply facing up to reality.
In particular, it explores Mizer's achievement in the conservative 1950s, in the days when the clash between unabashed
lustfulness and campy ghetto irony, between innocence and experience, epitomized Eisenhower's America.
itself tilted toward colonialism, albeit not with the
lustfulness of the European great powers.
Liquorice root is said to boost
lustfulness, particularly in women.
And if Mary Gulliver (at least in Pope' s appending text) shares something of this lady' s bestial
lustfulness, it could be argued that the onomastics of her name also suggest a distinct mulishness, though different in kind from that of her husband.
Broadly speaking, within the Western societies meat is symbolic of virility, strength, aggressiveness, power, status,
lustfulness, energy and health, while vegetables are symbolic of `purity, passiveness, cleanliness, femininity, weakness and idealism' (Lupton, 1996: 28; see also Fiddes, 1991; Beardsworth and Keil, 1997).
Yet Dickinson's greatest influence, Shakespeare, often uses sparrows to symbolize "feathered lechery, as monkeys and goats are of animal
lustfulness" (Partridge 190), and many other Renaissance writers do so as well, including Sir Philip Sidney and John Skelton, who imagine sparrows nesting happily in the breasts and laps, and even under the skirts of beautiful women.
For your
lustfulness and blaspheming, for the hardness and godlessness of your hearts, for your avarice and gluttony, for your sinful wealth and your worship of Mammon, God has cast you off and delivered you into the hands of your enemies!"
