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Flashcards in Invocation Deck (6)
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1
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opening of poem

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Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/ of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste/ Brought death into the World

2
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invoking the Muse

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Sing, Heavenly Muse - Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song

3
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His intention to go beyond

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That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme.

4
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Dove

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with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad’st it pregnant:

5
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ending of invocation

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What in me is dark
Illumin, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the wayes of God to men.
6
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Critics - Sandra Gilbert (feminist critic)

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Milton has a God complex