Milton's Kinesthetic Vision in Paradise LostThe author demonstrates that the apparent contradictions in the poetic, dramatic, and conceptual framework of Paradise Lost are purposive, indeed central, to Milton's kinesthetic poetics. |
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... express the fallen angels ' state of mind : the pain of hell itself is felt less than the loss of heaven and their yearning for it in its absence . The " thought both of lost happiness and pain , " as Milton expresses it in 1 : 54-55 ...
... express the fallen angels ' state of mind : the pain of hell itself is felt less than the loss of heaven and their yearning for it in its absence . The " thought both of lost happiness and pain , " as Milton expresses it in 1 : 54-55 ...
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... expresses this closeness in an image that is easily mistaken for depen- dency and subjection , which at this point in their evolution are outmoded . What Eve needs is what the tree image , if taken rightly , does express : the inner ...
... expresses this closeness in an image that is easily mistaken for depen- dency and subjection , which at this point in their evolution are outmoded . What Eve needs is what the tree image , if taken rightly , does express : the inner ...
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... expresses a similar order and peace , not disjunc- tive in spirit from the order expressed in Adam's picture : • th ... express no conflict with Adam's pic- ture , they differ from it in ways that have far - reaching though here buried ...
... expresses a similar order and peace , not disjunc- tive in spirit from the order expressed in Adam's picture : • th ... express no conflict with Adam's pic- ture , they differ from it in ways that have far - reaching though here buried ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's allow angels anger appearance beauty becomes beginning Book cause complex consciousness countering created creation declension defined described desirer destroy direct discussed disjunctive distance earth energy epic Eve's evil experience expresses fall fallen fear feels forces frame fruit gives heaven hell human identification imagination ironic irony judgment knowledge leads less light lyric meditative Milton mind modal mode motions move movement nature neutrality object pain Paradise Lost passage perceived perception perhaps physical picture pity poem pole possible principle psychic pure Raphael reader reality reciprocity reference relation relativizing represented resonance response Satan says seems sense serves shift similar simile simple spirit stage stars strategy structure sympathic takes thee third space thou thought tion tone tree turns universe vision winds wonder yearning yield