Eden Quotes

Question 1

Description of Eden

Foreshadows nature breaking when Eve eats forbidden fruit

Answer 1

‘Break of dawn’ => ‘earth felt the wound’

Question 2

Description of other ‘Edens’

Refs to other gardens in literature goes against 10 commandments - have no other God than me = foreshadows fall

Answer 2

‘More delicious than those gardens… Of reviv’d Adonis’

Question 3

Tree of knowledge

Synecdoche - using root to rep tree as a whole parallels A+E rep mankind as whole
Assonance = sad

Answer 3

‘Root of all our woe’

Question 4

Description of forbidden fruit

Archaic syntax provides sense of distance and severity that parallels distance ppl in England are from God bc of restoration

Answer 4

‘Nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die’

Question 5

Eden after eve eats fruit

Violation of nature

Answer 5

‘Earth felt the wound and nature from her seat… Gave signs of woe that all was lost’

Question 6

Description of Eden

Synaesthesia foreshadows the fall bc sensory overload assc. w Catholicism = fall as a result of respiration and CII’s suspicious religion

Answer 6

‘Humid flow’rs’

‘Breath’ their morning incense’