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... lines , a " prologue " as famous and often - quoted as any passage of En- glish poetry . I will not dispute the beauty of these lines , whose varied rhythm , sound , and diction , along with their syntactic complexity , create a ...
... lines , a " prologue " as famous and often - quoted as any passage of En- glish poetry . I will not dispute the beauty of these lines , whose varied rhythm , sound , and diction , along with their syntactic complexity , create a ...
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... lines . Why Othello at the moment of murdering Desdemona should linger over a double - entendre- “ Put out the light , and then put out the light " —or why Lear's entire mad grief should be expressed in so flat a line as " Pray you undo ...
... lines . Why Othello at the moment of murdering Desdemona should linger over a double - entendre- “ Put out the light , and then put out the light " —or why Lear's entire mad grief should be expressed in so flat a line as " Pray you undo ...
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... lines , and all of the intervening complications , backtrackings , and delays have only further whetted our anticipation of that decisive moment . Nor , when at last it comes , does the Fall disappoint our expectation of high drama ...
... lines , and all of the intervening complications , backtrackings , and delays have only further whetted our anticipation of that decisive moment . Nor , when at last it comes , does the Fall disappoint our expectation of high drama ...
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