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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Elizabeth Ely Fuller. her particular feminine nature ; he gives her an order and a principle of strength to replace the masculine principle Adam has withdrawn ; and he gives her love - the three things Eve has asked for but fails to ...
Elizabeth Ely Fuller. her particular feminine nature ; he gives her an order and a principle of strength to replace the masculine principle Adam has withdrawn ; and he gives her love - the three things Eve has asked for but fails to ...
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... gives form to his hatred of Eve more than to the delight she aroused in him . Whereas in heaven he became the tyrant ... give her the power of ascending to heaven , which will enlarge and give her greater power over her noble domain ...
... gives form to his hatred of Eve more than to the delight she aroused in him . Whereas in heaven he became the tyrant ... give her the power of ascending to heaven , which will enlarge and give her greater power over her noble domain ...
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... give love that exceeds both her power and the pain of her own loss , who loves more than she wants to be loved . Unlike Satan , she gives regardless of the structural justifications . As she said of the gods in Book 9 after she has ...
... give love that exceeds both her power and the pain of her own loss , who loves more than she wants to be loved . Unlike Satan , she gives regardless of the structural justifications . As she said of the gods in Book 9 after she has ...
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