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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Page 107
... human imagining , a strength the angels do not seem to have in the same degree , perhaps because they are so powerful that they can and do act at any time , according to their will as much as to their understanding . Human being may ...
... human imagining , a strength the angels do not seem to have in the same degree , perhaps because they are so powerful that they can and do act at any time , according to their will as much as to their understanding . Human being may ...
Page 242
... human beings under long obedience tried , " will " open themselves at length the way " ( PL 7 ; 154–61 ; Shawcross , p . 20 ) . Yet humanity's successive exoduses are not simply repeated occasions for the manifestation of faith and ...
... human beings under long obedience tried , " will " open themselves at length the way " ( PL 7 ; 154–61 ; Shawcross , p . 20 ) . Yet humanity's successive exoduses are not simply repeated occasions for the manifestation of faith and ...
Page 277
... human conscious- ness , the energy and consciousness of human being are evolved to receive it . This two - sided adjustment is the drama of the wrestler - lovers . As Adam expresses part of this action : [ By ] ... Nature's law all ...
... human conscious- ness , the energy and consciousness of human being are evolved to receive it . This two - sided adjustment is the drama of the wrestler - lovers . As Adam expresses part of this action : [ By ] ... Nature's law all ...
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