 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almosl life itself if it be true That light is in the Soul,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...great Word, "Let there be light, and light was over all"; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | Richard Harland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 276 pages
...applies when poetry accentuates the syntagmatic side of language. Consider again my example from Milton: The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Here the meaning of the whole stretches even further than usual away from the individual words. It... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 370 pages
...however, will surely be understood — I address the Moon when not visible at night in our hemisphere. "The Sun to me is dark, / And silent as the Moon / When she deserts the night, / Hid in her secret interlunar cave." Milton. Samson Agonistes [lines 86-89]. Sonnet 79. Line 7. bells ... dyes:... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
