 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...given the foe,0 However I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom, if death0 Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within...own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. So Adam, and thus... | |
 | Ken Hiltner - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...connection expressed through the image of a shared body. As Adam expresses it to Eve in Paradise Lost: "So forcible within my heart I feel / The Bond of.../ my own in thee, for what thou art is mine; / Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, / One flesh" (9.955-59). My earlier argument (which made a play... | |
 | Gary A. Anderson - Religion - 2002 - 284 pages
...to his real concern: His overflowing passion and ardent love for Eve. Milton nearly becomes maudlin: So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature...own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. (PL 9:955-959) Adam's... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...an accidental parallel to Adam's protestation to Eve at the moment of decision in Eden: So forcibly within my heart I feel The bond of Nature draw me...my own; My own in thee; for what thou art is mine. 12. Everything in the poem, of course, depends on the way in which this speech of Adam's is read. Mr.... | |
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Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee,... 
