...original sin, Milton turns away from. TANTALUS AND ORPHEUS thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the...

...25-45). He revisits a lamp that may illuminate him, but does not enable him to see - "thou / Revist'st not these eyes, that roll in vain /To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 22-24). Others have concluded that a writer's initial scopophilia, his observation...

...though few. He visits a lamp that may illuminate him, but that does not enable him to see—"Thou / Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (3.22-24). Descriptions of Milton's ideology of male domination must survive this...

...the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed .... Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. No doubt...

.../ Harmonious numbers" to the figurai light he makes the source of their volition, still that light "Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (LM 3.22-24). His attempt to elicit supernatural illumination only ramifies the opposed...

...dark descent, and up to reascend, » Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs,* Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not...

...dark descent, and up to reascend, 20 Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, 25 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not...

...schmerzhaft allegorisch, der sensus historicus ist dem blinden Erzähler physisch verschlossen: „[...] but thou / Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray [...]" (III,22b-24a). Das himmlische Licht fällt in eine subjektive Schwärze, gemalt von der Blindheit...

...God, much as Satan and the devils repeatedly find themselves throughout the poem: "thou / Revisit 'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" ( 3.22-4). The motif of the poet's precarious, exhilarating flight recurs in the...