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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Rather , in the later poems the dynamic structure is not only a pattern in which Milton sets forth the ideas he describes ; it is also an instrument by which the significance of the poem's events fulfill the kind of larger meanings ...
“ Ad Patrem ” establishes itself therefore as similar in organization to the kind of progressive or dynamic structure seen in the earlier “ Elegia Tertia ” and in the later " Lycidas " and Paradise Lost .
... kind , among the finest of that kind in our experience . " Miss Ellis - Fermor's discussion of Samson Agonistes is in the main very helpful , although her phrase “ final assumption into beatitude ” is either mistaken or misleading .
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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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