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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

POETRY-1 (ENG403). LECTURE – 17. RECAP OF LECTURE 16. The Puritan Age Political and Social Background Notable Writers John Milton His Literary Career The Paradise Lost Literary Sources Meter Argument. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS WORKS. Master of English Blank Verse Cosmic Sweep of Theme

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POETRY-1 (ENG403)

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  1. POETRY-1 (ENG403) LECTURE – 17

  2. RECAP OF LECTURE 16 • The Puritan Age • Political and Social Background • Notable Writers • John Milton • His Literary Career • The Paradise Lost • Literary Sources • Meter • Argument

  3. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS WORKS • Master of English Blank Verse • Cosmic Sweep of Theme • Sublimity of Execution • Sharp concreteness • Intensity of Religious Idealism • Full of Classical Allusions to Literature • Profound Scholarship • Organ-roll of linked Vowel Sounds

  4. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS WORKS • Power of delineating character • Vivid accurate description • Presentation of Nature • Simple, sensuous and Passionate • His rule of Poetry

  5. PARADISE LOST • Printed in 1667; 10 books • Printed in 1674; 12 books His ambition: write an epic • Vacation Exercise • Lycidas • Epitaphium Damonis

  6. LITERARY SOURCES • Scriptual & Talmudic writings • The Illiad, Oddyssey & Aeneid • St. Augustine’s Civitas Deis • Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpine • Vondel’s Lucifer • Caedman • Shakespeare • Marlowe • Giles Fletcher • Phineas Fletcher

  7. DOCTRINAL CONTENT • The Creation of World is Purposeful. • Christ is the son of God but second to him. • Absolute Freedom/Human will • Epitome: belief in Reformed Catholicism • METER • Blank verse • Iambic Pentameter

  8. ARGUMENT • The Fall of Satan & his angels; the burning lake of Hell; the palace Pandemonium • COSMOGRAPHY • Copernican system • Ptolemaic system • Plato, Dante & Aquinas • Better represented his poetry

  9. REVIEW OF LECTURE 16 • Invocation • Theme • Contents of the poem • Satan Fallen from Heaven

  10. Beelzebub. To whom th' Arch-Enemy,And thence in Heav'n call'd Satan, with bold wordsBreaking the horrid silence thus began. • Horrid- unkind • Arch-enemy- rival

  11. If thou beest he; But O how fall'n! how chang'dFrom him, who in the happy Realms of Light [ 85 ]Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst out-shineMyriads though bright: If he Whom mutual league, • Happy Realms of Light- paradise, heaven • Myriads- innumerable, immeasurable • Transcendent- magnificent • Mutual league- common association • Out-shine- surpass

  12. United thoughts and counsels, equal hopeAnd hazard in the Glorious Enterprize,Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd [ 90 ]In equal ruin: into what Pit thou seestFrom what highth fall'n, so much the stronger prov'd • Hazard- risk • Enterprise- project, venture • Ruin- damage

  13. He with his Thunder: and till then who knewThe force of those dire Arms? yet not for those,Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage [ 95 ]Can else inflict, do I repent or change, • Potent- powerful • Rage- wrath, anger • Portent- might, powerful • Inflict- impose • Repent- feel sorrow

  14. Though chang'd in outward lustre; that fixt mindAnd high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit,That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend, • Lustre- shine • Disdain- contempt, hatred • Contend- challenge

  15. And to the fierce contention brought along [ 100 ]Innumerable force of Spirits arm'dThat durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,His utmost power with adverse power oppos'dIn dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n, • Fierce- violent • Contention- conflict • Adverse- poor, unsympathetic • Dubious- uncertain

  16. And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, [ 106 ] And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome? • Shook- tremble, moved • Unconquerable- undefeated • Will- determination • Immortal- eternal, everasting • Yield- give way

  17. That Glory never shall his wrath or might [ 110 ]Extort from me. To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deifie his power,Who from the terrour of this Arm so lateDoubted his Empire, that were low indeed, • Wrath- anger, fury • Might- power • Extort- obtain by force • Suppliant- begging • Deifie- defy, disobey • Sue- take legal action

  18. That were an ignominy and shame beneath [ 115 ]This downfall; since by Fate the strength of GodsAnd this Empyreal substance cannot fail,Since through experience of this great eventIn Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't, • Ignominy- disgrace • Empyreal- heavenly • Arms- weapon

  19. We may with more successful hope resolve [ 120 ]To wage by force or guile eternal WarrIrreconcileable, to our grand Foe,Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joySole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n. • Eternal Warr- unending war • Irreconcilable- contradictory • Tyranny- dictatorship

  20. So spake th' Apostate Angel, though in pain, [ 125 ]Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:And him thus answer'd soon his bold Compeer.O Prince, O Chief of many Throned Powers,That ledth' imbattelld Seraphim to WarrUnder thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds [ 130 ]Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns perpetual King; • Apostate- traitor • Perpetual- lasting, eternal • Throned- thronged, crowd, mass

  21. And put to proof his high Supremacy,Whether upheld by strength, or Chance, or Fate,Too well I see and rue the dire event,That with sad overthrow and foul defeat [ 135 ]Hath lost us Heav'n, and all this mighty HostIn horrible destruction laid thus low, • Dire- terrible • Overthrow- conquer

  22. As far as Gods and Heav'nly EssencesCan perish: for the mind and spirit remainsInvincible, and vigour soon returns, [ 140 ]Though all our Glory extinct, and happy stateHere swallow'd up in endless misery. • Essences- spirit • Perish- expire • Invincible- unconquerable • Vigour- energy

  23. But what if he our Conquerour, (whom I nowOf force believe Almighty, since no lessThen such could hav orepow'rd such force as ours) Have left us this our spirit and strength intire [ 146 ]Strongly to suffer and support our pains, • Orepow’rd- overpowered • Intire- entire, complete

  24. That we may so suffice his vengeful ire,Or do him mightier service as his thrallsBy right of Warr, what e're his business be [ 150 ]Here in the heart of Hell to work in Fire,Or do his Errands in the gloomy Deep; • Suffice- sufficient, enough • Vengeful- unforgiving, revengeful • Ire- anger • Errands- everyday jobs

  25. What can it then avail though yet we feelStrength undiminisht, or eternal beingTo undergo eternal punishment? [ 155 ]Whereto with speedy words th' Arch-fiend reply'd. • Undiminisht- increased

  26. Fall'n Cherube, to be weak is miserableDoing or Suffering: but of this be sure,To do ought good never will be our task,But ever to do ill our sole delight, [ 160 ] • Cherube- angel • Delight- pleasure

  27. As being the contrary to his high willWhom we resist. If then his ProvidenceOut of our evil seek to bring forth good,Our labour must be to pervert that end,And out of good still to find means of evil; [ 165 ] • Providence- luck, fate • Pervert- misrepresent, alter

  28. Which oft times may succeed, so as perhapsShall grieve him, if I fail not, and disturbHis inmost counsels from thir destin daim. • Oft- often • Inmost- deeper

  29. But see the angry Victor hath recall'dHis Ministers of vengeance and pursuit [ 170 ]Back to the Gates of Heav'n: The Sulphurous HailShot after us in storm, oreblown hath laidThe fiery Surge, that from the PrecipiceOf Heav'n receiv'd us falling, and the Thunder, • Victor- champion • Vengeance- revenge • Surge- rush, pour • Precipice- rock face

  30. Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, [ 175 ]Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases nowTo bellow through the vast and boundless Deep.Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn,Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe.Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde, [ 180 ] • Impetuous- impulsive, rash • Shaft- stream, ray • Satiate- satisfy • Fury- anger • Yield- give way • dreary- dull, tedious • Forlorn- sad

  31. The seat of desolation, voyd of light,Save what the glimmering of these livid flamesCasts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tendFrom off the tossing of these fiery waves,There rest, if any rest can harbour there, [ 185 ] • Desolation- sadness • Voyd- void, lack of • Glimmering- spark, luminosity • Livid- furious, enraged • Dreadful- terrible, horrible • Fiery- flaming, blazing

  32. And reassembling our afflicted Powers,Consult how we may henceforth most offendOur Enemy, our own loss how repair,How overcome this dire Calamity,What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, [ 190 ] • Reassembling-gathering, combine • Afflicted- trouble, difficult • Calamity- disaster, tragedy • Dire- terrible, horrible • reinforcement- strengthening, support • repair- patch up, renovate

  33. If not what resolution from despare.Thus Satan talking to his neerest MateWith Head up-lift above the wave, and EyesThat sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besidesProne on the Flood, extended long and large [ 195 ] • Resolution- declaration, • Prone- horizontal

  34. Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as hugeAs whom the Fables name of monstrous size,Titanian, or Earth-born, thatwarr'd on Jove,Briareos or Typhon, whom the DenBy ancientTarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ] • Rood- quarter • Briareos- a giant with a hundred arms • Typhon- a giant with a hundred heads • Tarsus- a city of cilicia

  35. Leviathan, which God of all his worksCreated hugest that swim th' Ocean stream:Him haply slumbring on the Norway foamThe Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff,Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ] • Leviathan- a sea beast • Haply- perhaps • Skiff- boat • Deem- think

  36. With fixed Anchor in his skaly rindMoors by his side under the Lee, while NightInvests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend layChain'd on the burning Lake, nor ever thence [ 210 ] • Moors- fastens • Invests- covers

  37. Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the willAnd high permission of all-ruling HeavenLeft him at large to his own dark designs,That with reiterated crimes he mightHeap on himself damnation, while he sought [ 215 ] • Reiterated- repeated • Damnation- punishment in hell

  38. Evil to others, and enrag'dmight seeHow all his malice serv'd but to bring forthInfinite goodness, grace and mercy shewnOn Man by himseduc't, but on himselfTreble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour'd. [ 220 ] • Treble- thrice • Confusion- destruction

  39. REVIEW OF LECTURE 17 • Satan’s First Speech • Beelzebub’s Reply • Satan’s Second Speech • Satan Proposes to Summon His Followers • Description of Satan • Satan is Permitted to Rise

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