love of a man and woman but the meeting of the soul Psyche and love Cupid The forest becomes a symbol of natural holiness and peace Here love is the way to spiritual joy Psyche as the Goddess of the Soul Keats calls Psyche O latest born and loveliest vision far Psyche is the youngest and purest goddess of all She stands for the human soul full of innocence and calm beauty But Keats feels sad because she is forgotten She has No shrine no grove no oracle No one worships her and no one sings for her Her forgotten state makes Keats love her even more He wants to give her honour and faith through his heart For him Psyche is not just a goddess from Greek myth She is a spirit of love beauty and purity Her beauty shines like the soul s inner light Cupid as the God of Divine Love Cupid the winged boy is the god of love He represents warm and tender affection His love for Psyche is not only physical It is holy and spiritual Their quiet union in the forest shows a bond between love and soul Cupid gives warmth and care while Psyche gives peace and purity Together they create a perfect symbol of spiritual love The poet sees in their love a message real love joins body and soul feeling and faith This is the kind of love Keats praises in the poem The Inner Worship of Love Keats decides to worship Psyche with his imagination He says Yes I will be thy priest and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind The word fane means a temple He will not build it outside He will build it inside his mind That quiet temple will be full of flowers stars and dreams He says With buds and bells and stars without a name His imagination becomes his place of prayer This shows his belief that true love and true worship live in the heart not in temples of stone The poet s inner world becomes holy through love and imagination Spiritual Light and Divine Union In the final part Keats opens his heart to divine love He writes A bright torch and a casement ope at night To let the warm Love in The torch is the light of imagination The casement or window is his heart The warm Love is the divine spirit of beauty and inspiration It enters quietly into his soul Now love becomes spiritual It is not just emotion but a holy force that connects man with the divine Keats feels that through love and imagination the human soul can reach spiritual truth In Ode to Psyche Keats joins love and spirituality into one beautiful feeling The dream of Psyche and Cupid the forest the temple and the final light all show the same message True love is pure and divine It is the soul s worship of beauty For Keats the heart and the imagination are the real temples of spiritual love