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Page 80
... contrast rather than likeness . The contrast between the narrator's world reflected in the similes and the world of prehistory is a contrast between unity and variety , simplicity and multiplicity , order and con- flict . The syntax of ...
... contrast rather than likeness . The contrast between the narrator's world reflected in the similes and the world of prehistory is a contrast between unity and variety , simplicity and multiplicity , order and con- flict . The syntax of ...
Page 129
... contrast of allegorical and metaphorical language is so sharp , the episode itself , with its conclusion in Book X , so clear in its outlines and so distinctly set off from the rest of the narra- tive , that Milton seems to be making a ...
... contrast of allegorical and metaphorical language is so sharp , the episode itself , with its conclusion in Book X , so clear in its outlines and so distinctly set off from the rest of the narra- tive , that Milton seems to be making a ...
Page 166
... contrast . This device is most obvious as it involves the major places and persons of the poem : Hell is contrasted with Heaven and both with Eden ; Satan is contrasted with Christ ; Sin with Eve . These large contrasts are , as we have ...
... contrast . This device is most obvious as it involves the major places and persons of the poem : Hell is contrasted with Heaven and both with Eden ; Satan is contrasted with Christ ; Sin with Eve . These large contrasts are , as we have ...
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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