Satan Quotes Flashcards
Q: Monosyllabic sibilance = serpentile
The Sun was sunk
Q: Personification implies deception
Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon
Q: Active verb ‘fled’ implies fear
late fled before the threats
Q: Menacing and thought out
In meditated fraud and malice
Q: Heroics portrayed in contrast
fearless return’d
Q: Fear suggested through adjective ‘cautious’
cautious of day
Q: pre-Byronic hero, rejected and in pain
full of anguish driv’n
Q: Deception and hidden, implies fear or cunning
Satan involv’d in rising Mist
Q: Questing terms - heroism reflected through literary references
From Eden over Pontus, and the Poole Meotis, up beyond the River Ob; Downward as farr Antartic; and in length West from Orontes to the Ocean barr'd At Darien, thence to the Land where flowes Ganges and Indus: thus the Orb he roam'd
Q: Subtle and clever, meditating on his means to an end, suggests petulance
might serve his Wiles
Q: Cannot turn back but in two minds; pre-Byronic, heroic reflection
irresolute / Of thoughts resolv’d
Q: Hidden in the middle of a sentence
his final sentence chose / Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom / To enter
Q: Maybe a reflection of Milton due to both being vessels
beget of Diabolic pow’r
Q: Continued suffering
from inward griefe
Q: Onomatopoeia, violent imagery creates empathy
His bursting passion into plaints thus pour’d
Q: Ptolemaic world view; lack of knowledge debases him but amplifies his connection to an audience
Terrestrial Heav’n, danc’t round by other Heav’ns
Q: Implies loneliness, evokes sympathy
but I in none of these / Find place or refuge
Q: Cast out and jealous, but empathy because no home
and the more I see / Pleasures about me, so much more I feel / Torment within me
