Paradise Lost Sin as a character Flashcards
The one seemed woman…
To the waist, and fair,/but ended foul in many a scaly fold,/voluminous and vast – a serpent armed/with mortal sting.
A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked / …
Would creep,/if aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,/and kennel there
“Hast thou…
Forgot me, then; and do I seem / now in thine eye so foul?
Till in the left side…
Opening wide,/likest to thee in shape and countenance bright,/ then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed, / out of thy head I sprung.
Thyself in me…
Thy perfect image viewing,/becam’st enamoured; and such joy thou took’st /with me in secret that my womb conceived / a growing burden
This odious offspring […]
Breaking violent way,/tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain/distorted, all my nether shape thus grew / transformed
Genesis 3:16: “in sorrow, thou shall bring forth children”
Of that rape begot / …
These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry/surround me, as thou saw’st – hourly conceived/and hourly born, with sorrow infinite / to me
But what owe I to…
his commands above,/ who hates me […] thou art my father […] whom should I obey / but thee?
Thus saying, …
From her side the fatal key,/ sad instrument of all our woe, she took […] ever bolt and bar / of massy iron or solid rock with ease / unfastens.
Book 9 line 734: “ into her heart too easy entrance won” linguistic echo of Eve
“I cannot praise a fugitive…
And cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and see her adversary” - Aeropogatica
[sin itself should be a deterrent, not the punishment that follows]
Adorned/
With gay religions full of pomp and gold
Such as raised /
To highth of noblest temper heroes old / arming to battle
In guise /
of warriors old, with ordered spear and shield,/ awaiting what command their mighty Chief / had impose
The angels move with:
“Troubled thoughts” and “in silence to soft pipes that charmed / their painful steps o’er the burnt soil”
The ranged powers /
Disband, and wandring, each his several way/ pursues, as inclination or sad choice / leads him perplext
Augustine doctrine and the idea that through sin, one adopts psychological punishment
