Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 2 AIL 0110 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Milton's Six-Line Delay
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The idea
Paradise Lost opens with five lines of what the poem concerns, disobedience, the fruit, death, woe, the loss of Eden, before the verb arrives: "Sing, Heavenly Muse". Everything before it is the object of that command.
In practice
Five lines, then the verb.
Where people slip
The opening lines are not a sentence.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
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