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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Even the rhyme scheme of the opening lines of " Lycidas ” looks forward to the closing lines and imparts both unity and progression to the poem.30 This dynamic unity , like that which thirty years later will give Paradise Lost its ...
The opening boldly places the poem up against the epic tradition— " against it in both senses of the word : the opening is simultaneously opposed to and connected with the epic form . Milton uses the same four - part form with which he ...
Put into this context , Milton's opening lines equate Paradise Regained with the Aeneid , which is hardly surprising ; but what is surprising is that he implicitly equates his own Paradise Lost with the Eclogues and Georgics .
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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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