PL: Eve and Gender Flashcards
“Daughter of God and man…
“Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve, For such as thou art, from sin and blame entire.”
“So spake the patriarch…
“So spake the patriarch of mankind, but Eve Persisted”
“Herself, though fairest…
“Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far”
- “best prop” so far from Adam, “unsupported” esp. with Satan starin @ her
“Such pleasure took the serpent…
“Such pleasure took the serpent to behold This flower plat, … her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine”
“Fawning, and licked…
“Fawning, and licked the ground whereon she trod. His gentle dumb expression…”
“into fraud Led…
“into fraud Led Eve our credulous Mother, to the tree of prohibition, root of all woe”
“Eve separate he spies,…
“Eve separate he spies, veiled in a cloud of fragrance”
“For solitude…
“For solitude sometimes is best society”
“For the time remained / stupidly…
“For the time remained / stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, / of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge”
“her graceful innocence, her every air…
“her graceful innocence, her every air of gesture, or least action overawed / his malice”
“made second…
“made second to Adam”
“rib…
“rib crooked by nature”
“fairest resemblance…
“fairest resemblance of thy Maker”
