Comus and Lycidas are two poems that, when viewed together, one can find many similarities in. Milton uses much of the same imagery in both poems to convey the deaths and afterlives of the characters Sabrina and Lycidas. Since they both have so many similarities, the reading of Lycidas can help one to fully understand the Sabrina episode in Comus.

One of the main similarities that can be found in both poems is the use of a flower that grants immortality. When Sabrina drowns in the river and is brought to the sea god, she is bathed "In nectar'd leaves strew'd with Asphodil" (Comus 838). The Asphodil is the flower of Hades and the dead. The immortality bringing flower is also used when Milton calls to Nature to shower his friends' watery grave with flowers, "Bid Amaranthus all his beauties shed" (Lycidas 149). The Asphodil is the flower of Hades...