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 weakness of this conclusion does not merely lie in its conventionality ; in Paradise Lost , the functional manipulations of the conventions ( for example , the conventional journey to found a new kingdom ) are a source of the poem's ...
If the elder appears as merely a grumpy old man , the younger will appear , in trying to appease and persuade him , as either comic or servile . Yet an inevitable and central element of the poem is the clash between the young poet's ...
But here too the parallelism between Sophocles and Milton is merely superficial , and the differences are obvious . Milton of course knew Oedipus at Colonus but he was not using Sophocles's play in an active , functional way in the ...
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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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