...tendréis twine, Comes forth the screech-owl's boding song. (1427-34) The allusion here to Paradise Lost ("Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat /...her Works gave signs of woe, / That all was lost" [9:782-84]) places the preceding events in the context of the Fall, while the surrounding metaphors...

...15. 25 Mueller, "Pathos and Katharsis", p. 157. Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (PL 9. 780-84) Adam hears with horror, knowing at once that Eve's trespass is fatal and that she is...

...direct result of her own ratiocinations Eve reaches out and eats: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:...all her Works gave signs of woe. That all was lost. (780-84) Nature is sympathetic with Eve's fall; and its sympathy is possibly (if strangely) reflected...

...mortality into individual lives through the Fall is, in sequence, also suffered by the natural world: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (IX 782-4) The perfect creation grows imperfect; the 'centric globe' becomes 'oblique' (X 671), and...

...to Eve and then to Adam as each eats the forbidden fruit. Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. * Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost. (IX, 781-83) *Many modern versions change the word "cat" to "ate." Seventeenth-century pronunciation...

...future for humanity on earth. . . . her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking, an image...

...both body and mind?' So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth-reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. [. . .] all heaven Resounded, and had earth been then, all earth Had to her centre shook. Try putting...

...obtained: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to...

...law. 7625 Paradise Lost Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; itical and Miscellaneous Essays 7626 Paradise Lost O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works. 7627 Paradise Lost For...

...reminiscence of "that fatal moment in Book IX of Paradise Lost, when Eve her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost." There are two versions of the "Ode to Discord" in the Verse Notebook. I here quote the version that...