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... allegory feigned by a mortal imagination . The seemingly deliberate tension between antithetical uses of language , between sacred metaphors and allegory , which Dr. Johnson thought of as " confusion , " is actually still another means ...
... allegory feigned by a mortal imagination . The seemingly deliberate tension between antithetical uses of language , between sacred metaphors and allegory , which Dr. Johnson thought of as " confusion , " is actually still another means ...
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... allegory is identified with the dissociated vision of Satan ; in this context allegory is presented as one of the forces which the devil let loose in the world . By the equation of allegory with fallen vision in Paradise Lost , the ...
... allegory is identified with the dissociated vision of Satan ; in this context allegory is presented as one of the forces which the devil let loose in the world . By the equation of allegory with fallen vision in Paradise Lost , the ...
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... allegory there is a division between concrete and abstract , in parody there is a discrepancy between style and subject , words and values . Parody , like allegory , is therefore associated in Paradise Lost with Satan , because both ...
... allegory there is a division between concrete and abstract , in parody there is a discrepancy between style and subject , words and values . Parody , like allegory , is therefore associated in Paradise Lost with Satan , because both ...
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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