ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Il Penseroso, Oedipus Complex

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Allegro = light, morning/day, mirth, carefree/liberty, dreamlike, comedies/fairy tales, contemporary, present, unreflective, natural, open/unrestrained, company. Penseroso = dark, night, melancholy, careful, reality, tragedy, ancient, past, self-conscious, supernatural/artificial, covered/restrained, you can get lost, solitude. Orpheus is dead by the end of the poem. Penseroso picks out the happy part of the story of orpheus, where we think that he will succeed, leaving us to think of the poem at that stage. We think of these two poems as something between which milton must choose (they both end with an implication of choice) Il penseroso is longer, suggesting that because il penseroso is naturally more pensive, there"s more that he wants to say. Trying to go beyond the limits of metrical pattern. 154 monosyllables, foot = pun on poetic feet. Innocence vs. experience: we grow up whilst reading through these two poems. He makes it out that he doesn"t want to argue this thing: it"s paradoxical (praise mirth in a serious style)

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