[Milton-L] L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

[Tony Demarest]

I agree that we see two sides of Milton the poet and man struggling for poetic identity; and I think we see both sides reconciled in Lycidas- but I teach Milton every other year and this is my off-year. I tend to forget much in the interval.
Tony

> From: lschwart at richmond.edu
> To: milton-l at lists.richmond.edu
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:04:57 -0400
> Subject: RE: [Milton-L] L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
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> An even more important question, from my perspective, would be why you assume he'd take sides at all.  What, if anything, in the poems suggests that the debate is in any sense clearly decidable?
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> Louis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu [mailto:milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu] On Behalf Of James Rovira
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:26 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
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> More important than the answer is how you come to it.  Why do you
> think Milton would be on the side of Il Penseroso?  Can you list the
> reasons?
> 
> Jim R
> 
> 2009/3/24  <gamefreak727 at gmail.com>:
>> Hey, i am just a high school student writing about John Milton's poem's
>> "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso." My prompt i made for my senior project was,
>> If the two poems above were considered a debate, an argument, or two sides
>> of an issue or debate, or two people, which side or person would Milton most
>> prefer or like? My answer was "Il Penseroso." Would any of you agree with
>> me?
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