ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Thamyris, Puritans, Preposition And Postposition
5 Dec 2012
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The beginning of book 3 is an invocation, but it"s much more abstract: he calls down a heavenly light, rather than a woman. Milton has been blind for a long time - he"s never even seen his second wife. This is worth thinking about when pondering his description of eve. Book 2 ends in hell, and book 3 begins in heaven. this incredible shift from chaos to heaven is very quick. There are a lot of parallels between this talk of heaven and the actuality of what satan is living. the narrator sounds a lot like him. This is like a cutscene in film. Normally in epic, there"s at least a transitional preposition. This immediate switching invites a close comparison between heaven and hell, the narrator and satan, etc. This creates a lot of problems, because we start seeing god and the son and heaven in light of satan. At each book, imagine the screenshot that you"d be getting.
