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. As for Satan , though immortal Spirit , the fall causes him pain and fear ( 6 : 393-97 ) , pain that can lead to the death of the spirit in another sense : as Nisroch says after the first day of battle : ... pain is ...
Elizabeth Ely Fuller. As for Satan , though immortal Spirit , the fall causes him pain and fear ( 6 : 393-97 ) , pain that can lead to the death of the spirit in another sense : as Nisroch says after the first day of battle : ... pain is ...
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... spirits . Love is more multidirectional than eating , for in eating one must start with the material food before one can ... spirit : Man's nourishment , by gradual scale sublimed , To vital spirits aspire , to animal , To intellectual ...
... spirits . Love is more multidirectional than eating , for in eating one must start with the material food before one can ... spirit : Man's nourishment , by gradual scale sublimed , To vital spirits aspire , to animal , To intellectual ...
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... spirit became focused into a structural conflict between the ladder or chainlike hierarchical picture of the ... spirit— “ corporeal to incorporeal " -in passages such as 5 : 414-26 and 478-505 . Adam ex- presses this ascent in more ...
... spirit became focused into a structural conflict between the ladder or chainlike hierarchical picture of the ... spirit— “ corporeal to incorporeal " -in passages such as 5 : 414-26 and 478-505 . Adam ex- presses this ascent in more ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
Copyright | |
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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