Lecture 5 | Reading Rhythm in Dreams, Hymns, & Dances | Paradise Lost in Slow Motion

Considering Milton's use of poetic meter, this lecture covers Eve's Nightmare, Adam's Morning Hymn, and the origins of Satan's Rebellion.
This video is part I of two parts on Milton's blending of sound and sense. In Book 6, we will continue to look at Milton's use of lyrical sound when we come to the battle in heaven.
See the link below for a handout on meter:
docs.google.com/document/d/17...

[@closereadingpoetry]

A guide to meter available here: docs.google.com/document/d/17TIF19xn-CexAt18Ov7Vj3dxTFeVVoMloT3_MI8xaVc/edit?usp=sharing

[@SoteriosXI]

I just started a crack at the Golding translation of Metamorphoses and it feels like every line is packed with some deep metaphor that would make a Jungian analyst blush and yet I'm just charging through completely oblivious like a golden retriever in the vatican and the book is like 300 pages f**k me man.

[@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023]

footnotes would help

[@tamaragrottker7677]

Great examples and explanation about the rhythms of poetry! Next week I am presenting some poems to my 5th Graders. We don't go into this kind of depth, but the ideas are more organized in my head. Thank you again for sharing your close reading. I'm getting a lot more out of the poem than if I read P.L. without you insights.

[@closereadingpoetry]

Thanks for sharing; I'm glad this was helpful!

[@cronjefourie9098]

Great lecture, thanks!

[@shirzadalipour199]

I liked this one ❤❤❤

[@j.c.8944]

this is addictive😂

[@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023]

To me the idea of an author's intent is not as important as the rhytmical product itself. What matters is what's there. If it's there, it doesn't matter if he intented to be there. And I'm not even talking about psychoanalysis, I'm talking about poetry's origins in old songs. No one ever asks about Paul McCartney's intent when composing a melody. It's the same with poetry imo.

[@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023]

Also I think people overestimate the individuality of a poet/composer within a certain form. People that usually ask "why did you write this word here?" have never wrote anything, because, if they did, they would know that there is a very finite amount of words possible in the space between what you can say (in that form specifically) and what you want to say. That's what's frustrating when writing poetry and people just don't get.