In this utopia, the passion exchanged between the lovers is in harmony with the setting; their intimacy allows them to become part of the scenery. As William Davis notes, "[h]uman passion here does not violate the natural harmony of the island, but enables the happy couple to meld with the landscape itself" (64). Elysium, or the Greek state of complete happiness in Greek mythology, is very much like the Garden of Eden as depicted in Milton's Paradise Lost, where Adam and Eve do not experience the painful sensation of separation from their environment. There also seems to be an intertexual connection between Spencer's descirption of the lovers of the Elsyian fields, such as what can be found in Book 10, Canto 23 of The Fairie Queene:
In such luxurious plentie of all pleasure,
It seem'd a second paradise to ghesse,
So lauishly enricht with natures threasure,
That if the happie soules, which doe possesse
Th'Elysian fields, and liue in lasting blesse,
Should happen this with liuing eye to see,
They soone would loath their lesser happinesse,
And wish to life return'd againe to bee,
That in this ioyous place they mote haue ioyance free. (199-207)
Davis, William S. "Living Landscapes: Schelling, Goethe, Shelley." 2002. 49-71.