celery · @celrydoor
38 followers · 444 posts · Server lingo.lol

What did Poe mean when he described Ligeia's hair as "hyacinthine"? He had previously described her hair color as "raven-black", so obviously the "gold" definition doesn't fit here. But how did this word come to mean both blueish purple in non-hair contexts and gold in hair contexts??

#etymology #Poe #ligeia

Last updated 1 year ago

Penguinflight · @Penguinflight
84 followers · 2067 posts · Server mastodon.online

@Altered_Data

"There is no exquisite beauty... without some strangeness in the proportion."

- Bacon, Lord Verulam
- (1838)
- Edgar Allan

#poe #ligeia

Last updated 2 years ago