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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... Tree of Life , The middle tree and highest there that grew , Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regained , but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life - giving plant , but only used ...
... Tree of Life , The middle tree and highest there that grew , Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regained , but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life - giving plant , but only used ...
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... tree , Satan indicates that neither one is a tree ; they are both vines that need support . To fill this need , to accomplish the active fulfillment of the passive and coercive hero and heroine's roman- tic destiny , Satan in the next ...
... tree , Satan indicates that neither one is a tree ; they are both vines that need support . To fill this need , to accomplish the active fulfillment of the passive and coercive hero and heroine's roman- tic destiny , Satan in the next ...
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... tree as a picture of organic growth and the ladder as a picture of hierarchy with discrete steps and relative values . Third , all these images work against the real nature of the tree of knowledge as a neutral principle . Finally ...
... tree as a picture of organic growth and the ladder as a picture of hierarchy with discrete steps and relative values . Third , all these images work against the real nature of the tree of knowledge as a neutral principle . Finally ...
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