Structure in Milton's Poetry: from the Foundation to the PinnaclesMilton's skill in constructing poems whose structure is determined, not by rule or precedent, but by the thought to be expressed, is one of his chief accomplishments as a creative artist. Professor Condee analyzes seventeen of Milton's poems, both early and late, well and badly organized, in order to trace the poet's developing ability to create increasingly complex poetic structures. Three aspects of Milton's use of poetic structure are stressed: the relation of the parts to the whole and parts to parts, his ability to unite actual events with the poetic situation, and his use and variation of literary tradition to establish the desired structural unity. |
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... the tradition in a less obvious way — as a means of stepping outside themselves generically to comment on the relation between the poetic tradition in which they exist and the extra - poetic situation with which they are concerned .
To push the idea further , the poems of these pastoral poets are concerned not only with the explicit subject ( for example , Castiglione with the death of a shepherd named Alcon ) but with the relation of the explicit subject to the ...
One can see significant differences and similarities between Samson Agonistes and his previous poems such as “ Elegia Tertia " and " On the Death of a Fair Infant " : the early poems were also concerned with historic events , events ...
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Miltons Poetical Architecture | 1 |
The Early Latin Poems and Lycidas | 21 |
The Fair Infant Elegia Quinta | 43 |
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