He has found Xanadu as mentioned in the ancient book, where he will be immortal. He is dining on the fruits of life, and honeydew, while walking the caves of Ice. But alas, he has no experience of the real world anymore, for he is isolated in his caves. There he first realizes how he suffers from his own immortality. A thousand years have passed and time has passed him by, he hasn’t learned, lost, loved. Time simply passed.

There is a clash between urban and rural, the powers almost at war. Hopkin’s similar love of nature to St. Francis inspired much of his poetry.

The natural beauty of the lily opens a meditation on the relation between the urban and the rural. This combination is the setting for Hopkins' focus, the Franciscan philosopher: thus one who inherits a love of creation (from St. Francis) and of urbane thought (the Western philosophical tradition, which has been urban since Socrates).

Appearances

Austen ironically depicts the Bennets' enchantment with this unknown man, which extends to a fascination with the most mundane details of his person.

A blue coat was the height of fashion at the time. Its popularity was caused by the tragically romantic Werther wearing a blue coat in Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther.
Lydia later says she “longed to know whether [Wickham] would be married in his blue coat”.
This may also be an in-joke to the Austen family because handsome gentlemen in blue coats also appear in Jane Austen’s juvenilia.

Bingley is shown to be fashionable but he has also consciously chosen this coat to manipulate his appearance as dashing and Romantic. This is interesting because in the first few chapters, it is Mr Bingley who is being set up as the hero. Mr Darcy is not a conventional hero with good conversation, pleasing manners and a blue coat. It shows how the main couple is unconventional and don’t fit with the traditional couples in novels in this time period.

(Illustration of Werther in his famous blue coat and yellow waistcoat from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe).

Duns Scotus was a noted medieval philosopher and theologian who resided at Oxford university, and a member of the Franciscan Order. Scotus was known as the Doctor Subtilis because of his dialectical skill. His opponents used his name as an epithet, whence the English word, dunce.

Here we may note that the word “paradise” comes from the ancient Persian word paeri.daeza, meaning park or garden.

Humanity, according to the Biblical tradition, lost Paradise and immortality through the sin of pride. However, the Promised Land, Canaan, identified with modern day Israel, was said to be a land flowing with milk and honey, and a new paradise.

The shift this time is from “break his fast” to “dine”, from whispered tale to realization. The cosmic day progresses. But what is this “honeydew”? For Coleridge, as for 70s rockers, a narcotic interpretation is inevitable. Drug use has been linked to a suspension of the operation of the mind in ordinary time-a simalcrum of immortality is conferred on the consumer.

Multifarious legends associate the eating of various fruits with a transformation into immortality, such as the Apples of Iduna, which kept young the Aesir of Norse mythology, or in Babylonian legend, Gilgamesh, who sought a plant that would make him immortal.