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... never to submit to divine power . As if unwittingly , the epic voice is making Satan's point for him ; and when the narrator turns from denunciation to picturing the sufferings of Hell , going so far as to break out at one point " O how ...
... never to submit to divine power . As if unwittingly , the epic voice is making Satan's point for him ; and when the narrator turns from denunciation to picturing the sufferings of Hell , going so far as to break out at one point " O how ...
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... Never - never land of the poem's opening . Heaven , too , was not so much seen as heard in Book III ; if not , like Hell , a downright illusion , Heaven was nonetheless baffling and elusive . Much of our education in Paradise Lost has ...
... Never - never land of the poem's opening . Heaven , too , was not so much seen as heard in Book III ; if not , like Hell , a downright illusion , Heaven was nonetheless baffling and elusive . Much of our education in Paradise Lost has ...
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... never comments on Adam's emotional or spiritual condition , and he especially never exhorts Adam to take a particular attitude toward what he shows him . In each case , after a vision is presented , it is Adam who freely responds to it ...
... never comments on Adam's emotional or spiritual condition , and he especially never exhorts Adam to take a particular attitude toward what he shows him . In each case , after a vision is presented , it is Adam who freely responds to it ...
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