[Milton-L] L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

Daniel W. Doerksen dwd at unb.ca
Wed Mar 25 13:48:42 EDT 2009


Why not check to see the parallels in the two poems, and see if there is 
something in one poem, say the longer one, that is not paralleled in the other?

Daniel W. Doerksen

At 09:04 AM 3/25/2009, you wrote:
>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?
>
>Louis
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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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Daniel W. Doerksen 
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