John Milton, L'Allegro

The first of Milton's companion pieces presents a look at both a character type, the cheerful or exuberant, with a type of life. Milton presents it in terms that recognize the distinctions made by the Classical age, associating activity with the vita activa (or political life) but also with that of the rural lifestyle. The connection between the political life and the rustic life are not Classical, but probably more the product of Reformation thought, which sees the possibility of God being honoured in all stations and vocations of life.
As is characteristic of the two poems, each recommends the virtues of the character type and the vocations that attend it. We find various bucolic references in which something almost Edenic about the life of the cheerful man (L'Allegro) is captured.
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