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... seems perfectly appropriate that those of us who read Paradise Lost with continuing delight should ask ourselves why a number of our contemporaries whose criti- cal writings we respect read the same poem without experi- encing its ...
... seems perfectly appropriate that those of us who read Paradise Lost with continuing delight should ask ourselves why a number of our contemporaries whose criti- cal writings we respect read the same poem without experi- encing its ...
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... seem to re- flect a change in the angle of vision . The speaker seems now at a greater distance from his subject . The figures seem to recede and grow smaller until we view them through his 42 ] MILTON'S EPIC VOICE.
... seem to re- flect a change in the angle of vision . The speaker seems now at a greater distance from his subject . The figures seem to recede and grow smaller until we view them through his 42 ] MILTON'S EPIC VOICE.
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... seem to us inescapable in human experience . We recog- nize and grieve for Adam's plight , which seems without remedy to us in still another sense , because our experience of the mortal world he is now to enter teaches us that Adam's ...
... seem to us inescapable in human experience . We recog- nize and grieve for Adam's plight , which seems without remedy to us in still another sense , because our experience of the mortal world he is now to enter teaches us that Adam's ...
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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