Using Language to Describe Allegorical Figures Essay -- John Milton Ed

Using Language to Describe Allegorical FiguresMilton and Spenser are both describing tight situations in theirrelative poems, Milton concentrating on an empty existence, filledwith gloom and despair in fact the very description is of gloom anddespair, whilst Milton is describing an encounter with the gate ofhell itself, and indeed two terrible creatures, causing an atmosphereof elegant and utter evil flocculated with horror.Miltons language suggests ultimate evil, quarrel that over centuries constitute been distorted to lessen their original dramatic meaning. Wecasually use words like terrible, when describing the weather. InMiltons poem, words like terrible exist to chide intimately unimaginableterror filled situations. When Milton uses the phrase terrible ashell, he is saying it is so terrible it is beyond any humanscomprehension. To wee-wee horror, Milton uses dark words to build upevil imagery, e.g. fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell. Usingthese extreme adjectives cons ecutively, it is as if we discount picture thebeast growing as the description continues.Another social occasion that helps illustrate the mental picture of the scene isthe introduction of shadow and phantasma Black it stood as night.This darkness also adds to Miltons description of the shapelessblob-like figure. formless blob does not do Miltons descriptionjustice. It is a dark, evil figure, both striding and gliding towardsyou, almost as if it has no fixed shape and indeed could envelop youentirely. The uncertainty regarding whether it is gas like shadow orstinking substance also increases the fear, the unknown, and theunimaginable.Milton uses many evil comparisons and similes, so, should theadjectives fail to gi... ...egard to the man, Spenser tries to emphasize everything abouthim is low status. In Spensers mind, the man is dirty, in the extremesense of the word. Spenser portrays this when he says low sitting onthe ground This also shows Spenser associates this figure with organismlow, soulless bound to the ground forever. He has greesie locks,which is long growen an unbound which pose together means the man isextremely filthy and unhygienic, as he has not washed, cleaned orgroomed himself.Spenser ends describing a dead person, bringing sensitive filth and hopelessdespair into the atmosphere. The drearie coarse, which was allwallowed in his own but luke-warme blood, the thought of the rusty,knife, is also disgusting, because the rust would cause a heavy transmittal should the victim recover causing even more suffering nochance for recovery, despair.