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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... picture . The chain is the steps by which one goes from the center to the circumference . Another circular picture expresses a similar order and peace , not disjunc- tive in spirit from the order expressed in Adam's picture : • th ...
... picture . The chain is the steps by which one goes from the center to the circumference . Another circular picture expresses a similar order and peace , not disjunc- tive in spirit from the order expressed in Adam's picture : • th ...
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... pictures served less as rigorous formulations than as " poetic " representa- tions whose discrepancies did not invite questionings . Each picture provided certain spiritual comforts . The picture of human being proceeding from the ...
... pictures served less as rigorous formulations than as " poetic " representa- tions whose discrepancies did not invite questionings . Each picture provided certain spiritual comforts . The picture of human being proceeding from the ...
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... picture is ironically articulated most clearly by Satan as he beholds the created universe , still young in the evolution of created structures , just prior to his " descent " into the serpent : O earth , how like to heav'n , if not ...
... picture is ironically articulated most clearly by Satan as he beholds the created universe , still young in the evolution of created structures , just prior to his " descent " into the serpent : O earth , how like to heav'n , if not ...
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