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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)

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The Arch Fiend's Flight Aloft

There are three ways to charge language of meaning and great literature is language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree you've got fan appear, melopoeia and log appear. milton excels in all of these and at different times he pivots into each of them um more so but i think here is it's very very musical forthwith upright he rears from off the pool his mighty stature on each hand  the flames driven backward slope they're pointing spires now why spires it actually refers to a church and what we're reading here is the religion of satanSo that's not accidental that he's chosen to describe the visual in something that's large but also has

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