 The poem may allude to the myth of Clytie and Hyperion (as described in Ovid's "Metamorphoses") .Clytie, a girl or nymph, was in love with Hyperion, (in some classical writers also identified with Helios or Apollo), the Sun god, who in turn was in love with Leucothoe (or Leucothea).Hyperion/Helios and Leucothoe met in secret, but Clytie, possessed by jealousy, betrayed the lovers and Leucothoe was killed by her angry father.