’ on this side of Jove’s cloud to escape the sight’
’ in those meads where sometime shw might haunt…. were strewn rich gifts’
‘rested at the foot of those wild hills’
‘the rugged founts’
‘stretches, with all its mist and cloudy rack’
links to the theme of imagination an important element in Romantic literature
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
And threw their moving shadows on the walls,
Of some arch’d temple door, or dusky colonnade.
The excesses and dark shadows of Corinth are juxtaposed with the rationalist, Apollonius.