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... mankind , at which point God will forgive Satan's victims . Since one does not forgive a victim , however , God's ... mankind's ex- pense ) is ill - suited to allay a reader's suspicions that good and evil are not in this poem quite what ...
... mankind , at which point God will forgive Satan's victims . Since one does not forgive a victim , however , God's ... mankind's ex- pense ) is ill - suited to allay a reader's suspicions that good and evil are not in this poem quite what ...
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... mankind , but there is a limit beyond which Eternity cannot go in sympathy for time- bound creatures : Soon as th ' unwelcome news From Earth arriv'd at Heaven Gate , displeas'd All were who heard , dim sadness did not spare That time ...
... mankind , but there is a limit beyond which Eternity cannot go in sympathy for time- bound creatures : Soon as th ' unwelcome news From Earth arriv'd at Heaven Gate , displeas'd All were who heard , dim sadness did not spare That time ...
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... mankind double - man and woman - is demonstrated more clearly here than at any other place in the poem . Adam and Eve each have half the picture : Adam has discovered that deeper meanings must be sought beneath the surfaces of God's ...
... mankind double - man and woman - is demonstrated more clearly here than at any other place in the poem . Adam and Eve each have half the picture : Adam has discovered that deeper meanings must be sought beneath the surfaces of God's ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic E. R. Curtius Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth