Motif
fatal self-love through reflected image
fatal_self_love_through_reflected_image
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5286-5376 confidence: high
Food and rest cannot draw the youth away; he lies on shaded grass and gazes at a fallacious image until he is undone by his own sight.
The youth becomes fixed on a reflected image, recognizes it as himself, and dies after wasting away from that desire.
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