ENG 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Enjambment, Purgatory, Omnipotence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 3340
• Professor: Victoria Burke

Document Summary

Invocation (line 1 49: syntax: fruit: outcome, disobedience, double chains of discourse: of man"s f. d / of that f. t: fruit associated to both clauses, mortal: human, and deadly. Rich and ominous: line 3: brough death two stressed syllables together. Varying things to keep them interesting: woe: suffering souls in hell or purgatory ll. 10-16: aeonian mount: i am doing more than classical writer. Going way above classical gods foregoing all other writers: consciously quoting halian poet: ariosto in orlando furioso ll. 17-26: talking to god: god as dove giving birth to world. Image of fertility god as ultimate creator. Fusing masculine and feminine: reinforce illuminate, enjambment, blind poet: lots is dark, show the justice of the ways of god to man, went from adam (l. 1) to christ (l. 4) to us (l. 26). Satan corrupted humanity line 44 with vain attempt : syntax wants us to focus on first part of sentence facts of situation emphasized.