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... images of light , and these images control the tone in which the narrative voice interprets to us his " great Argument , " what man has lost and what he has gained . The images of light in the first sentence describe the light which is ...
... images of light , and these images control the tone in which the narrative voice interprets to us his " great Argument , " what man has lost and what he has gained . The images of light in the first sentence describe the light which is ...
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... images of the passing year , of the cycles of sunrise and nightfall , the sea- sonal changes of foliage and scenery . This simple , general , idealized language is deliberately conventional . The images of light falling on " flocks " or ...
... images of the passing year , of the cycles of sunrise and nightfall , the sea- sonal changes of foliage and scenery . This simple , general , idealized language is deliberately conventional . The images of light falling on " flocks " or ...
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... images as descriptive comparisons but Satan in his courtly - love language uses them as titles . He therefore turns images which are properly similes into meta- phors , and by these false identifications destroys the true sacred ...
... images as descriptive comparisons but Satan in his courtly - love language uses them as titles . He therefore turns images which are properly similes into meta- phors , and by these false identifications destroys the true sacred ...
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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