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... adjective , because it is turned into a noun , has properties interchange- able with the adjective now modifying it . A number of other words like " obscure " are used in the poem as both adjectives and nouns . In the phrase " vast pro ...
... adjective , because it is turned into a noun , has properties interchange- able with the adjective now modifying it . A number of other words like " obscure " are used in the poem as both adjectives and nouns . In the phrase " vast pro ...
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... adjective is also used in its familiar form in the phrase " vast abrupt " ( II , 409 ) , which here puts the emphasis on the peculiarity of the noun , but in the phrase the " vast of Heav'n " ( VI , 203 ) we are made to feel the strange ...
... adjective is also used in its familiar form in the phrase " vast abrupt " ( II , 409 ) , which here puts the emphasis on the peculiarity of the noun , but in the phrase the " vast of Heav'n " ( VI , 203 ) we are made to feel the strange ...
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... adjectives with abstract nouns , of two nouns of different kinds , the use of adjectives as nouns , the syntax which ... adjective and concrete noun , nor do we mark with any particular emphasis the lines which follow conventional syntax ...
... adjectives with abstract nouns , of two nouns of different kinds , the use of adjectives as nouns , the syntax which ... adjective and concrete noun , nor do we mark with any particular emphasis the lines which follow conventional syntax ...
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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 Death 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 interpretation invocation language of statement 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 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