3 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2018
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and in th' excess of joySole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n.
Had Satan won the heavenly battle and became ruler of all, would we have had a more just, good, better god/ ultimate ruler? Is God truly tyrannical?
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That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate
Trait of epic poetry: the hero witnessing some kind of horrible disaster, as well as establishing a damaging character flaw.
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Thither let us tendFrom off the tossing of these fiery waves,There rest, if any rest can harbour there, [ 185 ]And reassembling our afflicted Powers,
This feels very much like the Aeneid after Aeneas and his men crash on Carthage
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