Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise LostRoutledge, 2007 - 190 páginas This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment destabilizes those subjects' understanding, not only of environment, but of themselves. The study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam's sense of the landscape of Eden and the meaning of the Fall itself, to the relationship the ambiguous landscapes of Paradise Lost create between Adam and Eve, the poet and the reader; all of whom are struggling to make sense of the same problematically described places. To a surprisingly large extent, the description of prelapsarian Eden and the events that go on within it have in common a failed attempt to understand the nature of the surroundings. In observing the centrality and difficultly of this poetic discourse of place, the problem of place is found at the very heart of the Fall. |
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... meaning " and " private significance ” —the search for the former , he main- tains , must never be confused with speculation ( which is all that is available ) about the latter.16 As the methodologies and historical understandings have ...
... meaning applies particularly to place , as we have seen in the final passage . Neither Heaven nor Earth , in their respective moral hues , can govern the meaning of events that happen within those environ- ments . Milton's description ...
... meaning of an idea stated barely and the final meaning of an idea stated in the context of poetry . Trope ( etymologically another metaphor of motion ) itself acts to dis- tort meaning over a distance . My compass figure applies to the ...
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