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... poem argues the proposition that God's ways are just , no one reads it solely to discover this proposition , but rather to undergo a series of experiences designed to convince us of its truth . Milton's very words in the poem : " That ...
... poem argues the proposition that God's ways are just , no one reads it solely to discover this proposition , but rather to undergo a series of experiences designed to convince us of its truth . Milton's very words in the poem : " That ...
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... poems embody . Milton's poem is as much anti - epic as it is epic , and formally it inverts many of the epic norms , as Dryden perceived when he complained that in Milton's epic the dragon won the day and sent the knight forth with his ...
... poems embody . Milton's poem is as much anti - epic as it is epic , and formally it inverts many of the epic norms , as Dryden perceived when he complained that in Milton's epic the dragon won the day and sent the knight forth with his ...
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... poem's " tragic " or " comic " aspects is com- mon practice , reflecting recognition of the poem's affinities with drama . But there is one difficulty with these labels , and that is simply knowing which to apply to Paradise Lost as a ...
... poem's " tragic " or " comic " aspects is com- mon practice , reflecting recognition of the poem's affinities with drama . But there is one difficulty with these labels , and that is simply knowing which to apply to Paradise Lost as a ...
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