[Milton-L] Re: Test, Milton's Humor, and the OSF

[Sara van den Berg]

Re: Milton's Humor

Perhaps the most intentional moment of humor occurs in P.L. 4, when
Milton describes how the creatures of the earth play before Adam and
Eve, especially how "th'unwieldy Elephant / To make them mirth us'd
all his might, and wreathd / His Lithe Proboscis" (4.345-47).  The
humor is countered by the lines Immediately following, in which Milton
describes "the Serpent sly insinuating," who "of his fatal guile /
Gave proof unheeded."

Sara