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TO THE MUSE IN PARADISE LOST, Book T Parodie Lost with an invocation to. the In opening his INVOCATION O Papert \ Muse (ll. 1-26), Milton follows a time-honoured epic convention. Like Dante and Tasso, he follows Therein Homer and Virgil. Gut Milton also departs from the Convention boldly. Milton's Muse is Not one Of fhe stock Pesonages of — Classical mymology , but rather o © Heavenly” being who inspired the prophets and poets Of Th Bible and who mn be identified @ith the very spirit of God As the poet draws hts inspiration from fe fame source as Moses or David, he Can boat fhat his song ill “soa0 / Above th’ Aonian Mo: cal poeby - His song will thus sur past the epics Of the ancl ent |‘ witers. He i going to attempt Sthings vnattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme” “Then the poet invoke: her Os hauntin Te waters of Siloah that flows beneath Mount Zion, ~on ahich stood Tm temple that contained [he oracle of God. Besides being an appeal, Mase sets forth the subject-matter oF The Po is fe fall of Man fesviting from © Wan’s last is roteworMy t Milton’s repeated we of Ihe ‘fiat? and mages Of rising — ‘fist disobedience’, *ficst taught The choten seed’, Shou from te fist Wast present.” secret top’, * Rote out of Chaos’, ‘adventurous song "tno middle flight, ‘soar', ¢ vprigh neat’, faite and copport?” ef hight of Te Q teat Argument ’. re use Of These twords and tmages [Sea Ces (eee rn pct ODI (ns feader’s’ mind that Bey ase Joing tb participate in Te Celebration of © reat event « A poet aro wt ovt On an _ extraordinary venture Hive Milton's» most create This. impression at outiet - Are vocation “To the Awe Milton's Bar Of declaring the importance And ca of is one ru Oe nee aki Tings op: le 8 in relate a reeset el to him: She! speak! tp ou thu Of word e vat’, The home Of the Muse of classi - tre invocation to fhe em. Milton's subject fist disobedience’. and lifting th the invocation 7 ia ti é © Seah ant Y: an authority greater than his On: “Tren’ in fhe tecond tentene Of Me tavoation (wu. 126), Milton invoyer te Holy Sit, becuse he warts te emphasize — The creative aspect Of is Mase OE Holy Spit b ‘that divine breath or influence by hich everything it created and nourished.” The tone of daving in the Hist gentence CI 1-16) Roo giver way te hat ot a devout and urgently peronel prayer fall of bunility. be even this humility “6 daring - Milton here prays to te Spirit thot brooded on te *vast Abyss’ ar the creation of th World and tuned tk, into harmoniou s order. = He = prays that his on heart be transformed fo that he mor write his poems 6 What im me is dark [Momine, ohat is low raise and support ; frat to The Nigh of [his Great Acgument T may avert Eternal Providence , And justify O47! of God to men.” Te ueiting OF poetr is a moral act for The poet ; iy alo on ack (hat participates, in God-like creati- forticularly notedorthy is fle - fequers that rough ‘Sinai’, “ion Hill’? and fe Aonian) Movnt 7% Tre S upright heart and pure the important efpert to notice K that [he facep through “time and Space ends by Coming £0 focus on Ie human heart - Ae movement of The Whole poem is similar. God and Hi creatures teach back to the Lreginting — OF time and foroad to fhe end , embracing th Bi survey hole of — time and space . Yet be are never in dovbt regarding th tignificance of the foul of Te individual. [Eis ta Ure heat that he Ultimate dramar taker place. vity feads through Eden’ Tae y J Ae invoration ot tb most by which milhout wat & a rutmg — place maze of cubordinate rere bb full stop fetond sentence hole invo Cation Nor mal English object of Re opening beginning » Tos 9M oem. prich bb te uplifted by ispicattion fa 0 language appropri exaltation high proportion of is representative in st ite relief obedience © AtLomine” y Allusion » particviacly also contribute to “The Milton's a Chatian majestic. oe are verb . And stage for mt Le) subtly claims The all mankind _ Mit tre |help OF the justify? or explais homankind + ® to te Muse le opens Kept Ohen we beginning ot We are at once clauses after © Rhy me? (al is Closely st» 0nd Mee a iat order is importance to objet ot from ately iwocation to fe- invention Of te rte forging of tradition , viz. Th cuperionity of dlossia! epics in terms of it ‘ an ik visions ahich | Divine Spirit , he hopes God’s | | Tyo ution to 4) Te Muse, PL BAT : \ thows Milton's Ceara ’ wilh oO ere Re suspended for 38 words fone. to Ime verb Sing” it does not provide deflected into 4 roses. _ Although ne 16), The line 6> and faced to he single Continvovs movement. feversed SO That the moy be P! at te Tre subject OF Me the fentence oe speaker, qelates his veson Ame etect Of fe Latinate diction The monosy lable words = ghicn wre diction poly syllable: a ‘dis - ment? and Providence’. exotic, mch OF foreign, his Muse, elevated - the Muse sett [he Classical epic and English epic Milton pis Work Over the subject , hich concems is _all- entom passing « for mysterious plan ce

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