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... poet that Adam speaks directly when after his Fall he laments his legacy of corruption : ... Fair Patrimonie That I ... poet whose song we are to hear and understand . It tells us that not only are we to hear a story familiar to us , but ...
... poet that Adam speaks directly when after his Fall he laments his legacy of corruption : ... Fair Patrimonie That I ... poet whose song we are to hear and understand . It tells us that not only are we to hear a story familiar to us , but ...
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... poets . As in- spired poet - prophet , the narrative voice claims the instruc- tion granted to Moses and the illumination granted the blind man . He can interpret to us Adam's story and our own share in it because , like a bird , he can ...
... poets . As in- spired poet - prophet , the narrative voice claims the instruc- tion granted to Moses and the illumination granted the blind man . He can interpret to us Adam's story and our own share in it because , like a bird , he can ...
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... poetic surface . In similes the poet could claim his relationship to a wealth of literary tradition , by their formal conventionality and by their allusions to other poems , to other literature , and to other learning . Similes in ...
... poetic surface . In similes the poet could claim his relationship to a wealth of literary tradition , by their formal conventionality and by their allusions to other poems , to other literature , and to other learning . Similes in ...
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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