To Helen Love Quotes

The speaker moves from talking about Helen's physical features ("hair," "face"), to something more like attitude or personality ("airs"). His love is about looks, but it's also about other things that are harder to quantify.

The speaker compares his love to a statue. Sometimes, when we love people, we fix an idea of them in our heads that is as rigid and unmoving as a statue. No matter how they might actually change, the person we love will always be the same.

A lamp is a light. The image of Psyche holding a lamp suggests that love can illumine our lives, make things clear that were once unclear. Put another way, love is like a light in a dark world.