Allusions to darkness in Milton’s L’Allegro IL Penseroso

Topic

Allusions to darkness in Milton’s L’Allegro IL Penseroso

Instructions

What are six allusions to blackness or darkness in Milton’s L’Allegro Il Penseroso? Hint: You may need to use the annotated study guides to detect them. If you find more than 6 I will give extra points.

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These authors plan their poems with the outstanding word that show how substances originate their colors from the intellect by representing the things upon the mirth and the melancholy humors rather than how other minds would like to consecutively imagine their appearances. Through the poems “the cheerful man and the pensive man” the authors use darkness or blackness allusions that are nicely notable, although not discerning to the characters use melancholy as efforts of thoughts.

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