Paradise Lost

Question 1

intertexts

Answer 1

“enna, where prospin gathering flowers / herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis”

“So spake the false desembler” “double tongued people of tyre”

• the devils in pandamonium “ the hiss of rustling wings as bees in spring time… so thick the erie crowd swarm’d”
  aeneid: as bees “hives seethes with activity”

Question 2

Miltons god

Answer 2

“when reason hath equall’d, force hath made supreme // above his equals”

Question 3

eve dream

Answer 3

“his wonder was to find unawakened eve // with tresses discomposed, and glowing cheek”

Question 4

Eve Narcissus

Answer 4

“pleased it soon returned with answering looks // of sympathy and love”

Question 5

critic about falling being a gain

Answer 5

Lucy Newlyn: “falling is not just loss, but gain; it involves the realisation of the self as subjective or, in romantic terms, the emergence of conscious and imagination” - paradise lost and the romantic reader

Question 6

milton quote that Mary hateesss

Answer 6

“for contemplation he and value formed // for softness she and sweet attractive grace // he for god only, she for god in him”

Question 7

what mary replies

Answer 7

“i cannot comprehend his meaning, unless… he meant to deprive us of souls and insinuate that we are beings only designed for sweet attractive grace, and docile obedience”

Question 8

Rape of the Lock quotes

Answer 8

• “say what strange motive, Goddess! cou’d compel // a well-bred lord t’assult a gentle belle? // oh say what stranger cause, yet unexplor’d, // could make a gentle belle reject a lord?”
• “caused her cheek to glow”
• “beware of all, but most beware of man!”
• “favours none, to all her smiles extend”
• “purer blush” (cosmetics)
• “arm’d with ribs of whale”
• “a heavenly image in the glass appears,// to that she bends, to that her eyes she rears”
• PL the “pinning” of “vain desires”