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... least faintly uneasy with the vision of reality the poet seems to be painting . Like an imperfect film print , Hell " flickers , " and this flickering is an implicit message from the author , at first inconspicuous and yet cumulatively ...
... least faintly uneasy with the vision of reality the poet seems to be painting . Like an imperfect film print , Hell " flickers , " and this flickering is an implicit message from the author , at first inconspicuous and yet cumulatively ...
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... least sincerely trying to be so . God , for his part , the narrator informs us , has " remov'd The stony from thir hearts " ( XI , 3-4 ) . When their prayers fly up to Heaven , they lead to a reiterated offer of intercession from the ...
... least sincerely trying to be so . God , for his part , the narrator informs us , has " remov'd The stony from thir hearts " ( XI , 3-4 ) . When their prayers fly up to Heaven , they lead to a reiterated offer of intercession from the ...
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... least a little smug at the spectacle of God wiping out virtually the whole human race : we at least were privileged to escape . Yet , as the narrator's remarks emphasize , Adam's response to the deed measures ours and finds it wanting ...
... least a little smug at the spectacle of God wiping out virtually the whole human race : we at least were privileged to escape . Yet , as the narrator's remarks emphasize , Adam's response to the deed measures ours and finds it wanting ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton