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... Angels kenn he views The dismal Situation waste and wilde ... ( I , 59-60 ) " Angels kenn " is by implication more extensive than that of unaided " men , " since without help Satan can survey Hell , but more limited than the narrator's ...
... Angels kenn he views The dismal Situation waste and wilde ... ( I , 59-60 ) " Angels kenn " is by implication more extensive than that of unaided " men , " since without help Satan can survey Hell , but more limited than the narrator's ...
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... angels ' ways of knowing and man's . Raphael ex- plains the difference to Adam by distinguishing their forms of ... angelic narrators in Paradise Lost speak a different language from the speaker , who shares our human nature and our ...
... angels ' ways of knowing and man's . Raphael ex- plains the difference to Adam by distinguishing their forms of ... angelic narrators in Paradise Lost speak a different language from the speaker , who shares our human nature and our ...
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... angels was simple , natural , and imme- diate because it was a true description of the unfallen world . Typical is the pair of similes with which the angel describes Satan's host : Innumerable as the Starrs of Night , Or Starrs of ...
... angels was simple , natural , and imme- diate because it was a true description of the unfallen world . Typical is the pair of similes with which the angel describes Satan's host : Innumerable as the Starrs of Night , Or Starrs of ...
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abstract meanings Adam and Eve Adam's Fall Adam's story adjective allegory allusions angels Areopagitica argument asso associated beauty bird blind bard characters circle comparisons concrete and abstract contrast created creation critical darkness described device diction divine dramatic Earth elaborate epic introductions Eve's evoke experience express extended similes fables Faerie Queene fallen reader fallen world familiar feel Fortunate Fall God's guage Heaven Hell heroic illumination illustrate images inner light innocence inspired narrator interpretation invocation lines loss Lycidas Milton's epic mortal vision narrative voice narrator's nature noun Paradise Lost particular passage pastoral poetry pattern physical poet poetry qualities Raphael rator reality recognize references reminds sacred metaphors Samson Agonistes Satan scene sense shades shape share song speaker speech Spenser's story structure style syntax thee thir thou throughout the poem tion tone tradition true pastoral world truth unfallen unique unity vision words