ENGL 316 Lecture : Milton 5
5 Dec 2012
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Clergy doesn"t serve to nourish the soul. It looks like the good has been defeated and the bad shepherds live on, but there will be a judgment day, and these bad people will get their comeuppance. Old testament prophets are not clear, they"re very ambiguous and murky. Throw flowers on the coffin of a poet: poetry =~ poesie. If you throw flowers on a dead poet"s body, you"re symbolizing that his art is going to live on. He sunk to the bottom as if to prepare to rise up to the surface. At this point, it flips from mourning and a sense of loss to a sense of consolation and the gains that have happened through this loss. Inversion of the beginning of the poem, where it begins again. Since lycidus is conquered by water, and christ can walk on it; christ can tame the water that kills.
