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... pattern of these lines , the descent and reascent of the bird's flight , ( made more terrible by its asso- ciations with the visits of Orpheus and Aeneas to the under- world ) recalls the pattern of loss and restoration in the first ...
... pattern of these lines , the descent and reascent of the bird's flight , ( made more terrible by its asso- ciations with the visits of Orpheus and Aeneas to the under- world ) recalls the pattern of loss and restoration in the first ...
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... pattern of Satan's decline , to his awareness of it , and to its willfulness . He is " constraind " only by his own hatred ; his incarnation is a hateful inversion of Christ's . The growing division within Satan is further marked by the ...
... pattern of Satan's decline , to his awareness of it , and to its willfulness . He is " constraind " only by his own hatred ; his incarnation is a hateful inversion of Christ's . The growing division within Satan is further marked by the ...
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... pattern of repetition . The tone of the narrator as he describes the banishment of Adam and Eve from Eden allows us to feel the restoration of order which we have seen shattered in the course of the poem . The shape of the epic returns ...
... pattern of repetition . The tone of the narrator as he describes the banishment of Adam and Eve from Eden allows us to feel the restoration of order which we have seen shattered in the course of the poem . The shape of the epic returns ...
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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