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... light " to symbolize Christian truth . To counter Hell's dark- ness , Book III offers Heaven's light , especially the metaphoric “ light ” of God's providential plan for Man's redemption , to contrast with and undo Satan's dark plans ...
... light " to symbolize Christian truth . To counter Hell's dark- ness , Book III offers Heaven's light , especially the metaphoric “ light ” of God's providential plan for Man's redemption , to contrast with and undo Satan's dark plans ...
Page 65
... Light , he turns to the light God makes . Even here , of course , there is a question of how literally we are to take the word " light . " The light God made on the First Day was doubtless real . visible light ( even without a radiant ...
... Light , he turns to the light God makes . Even here , of course , there is a question of how literally we are to take the word " light . " The light God made on the First Day was doubtless real . visible light ( even without a radiant ...
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... light . " He no sooner speaks of singing than he begins to sing lines that have brought me closer to tears than any ... light and sight have several senses , that these senses may in human experience conflict ( to see we must be blinded ) ...
... light . " He no sooner speaks of singing than he begins to sing lines that have brought me closer to tears than any ... light and sight have several senses , that these senses may in human experience conflict ( to see we must be blinded ) ...
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