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... shape , " again reminding us of char- acters in The Faerie Queene , especially of Errour , described by Spenser's narrator as an " vgly monster " : Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide , But th❜other halfe did womans shape retaine ...
... shape , " again reminding us of char- acters in The Faerie Queene , especially of Errour , described by Spenser's narrator as an " vgly monster " : Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide , But th❜other halfe did womans shape retaine ...
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... shape " as to a rhetorical figure invented to stand for some idea existing independently of the figure itself . This feeling is substantiated by the narra- tor's description of the second " shape " : The other shape , If shape it might ...
... shape " as to a rhetorical figure invented to stand for some idea existing independently of the figure itself . This feeling is substantiated by the narra- tor's description of the second " shape " : The other shape , If shape it might ...
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... shape Starr bright appeer'd , or brighter , clad With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him , or false glitter • • ( X , 449-452 ) Like the figures of Sin and Death , Satan has no true " shape " because he no longer belongs ...
... shape Starr bright appeer'd , or brighter , clad With what permissive glory since his fall Was left him , or false glitter • • ( X , 449-452 ) Like the figures of Sin and Death , Satan has no true " shape " because he no longer belongs ...
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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