The habitations of all things which dwell,Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
The houses were burnt in order to make light ?
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- May 2020
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And men were gather'd round their blazing homesTo look once more into each other's face;
I am very confused on these lines , what would looking at each others faces do ?
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all heartsWere chill'd into a selfish prayer for light
People becoming selgish can be related to this current time in which people are stocking up on food and other materials , that they do not need while others are in need .
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- Apr 2020
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rise in the middle of the night
When you know that you have forgotten , sometimes people are quick to try and remember what they had lost . As I feel Coleridge felt when try to remember what he thought about to write in his poem . Unlike looking up the date of a war , only Coleridge knew about his dream, if he ad forgotten about it , it was sure to be lost forever .
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it is not poised on the tip of your tongue
This shows that somethings are not temporarily lost in your memory but are completely forgotten about , that you have no recollection of it at all . It does not hide in your memories .
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watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
This illustrates the idea of knowing and remembering something , and suddenly forgetting about it . Similar to how the Coleridge poem was suddenly forgotten about
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thou travel on life's common way
The person who the speaker is talking about has lived a normal life , with normal responsibility and actions
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Thou hadst a voice
Has the person who the speaker is talking about no longer living ? But is reminiscing about them
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thou shouldst be living at this hour:
Is the speaker telling Milton to live in the moment , and not to worry about the future?
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So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
What duty are they speaking about ? Is it the duty the Angel spoke to Tom about of being a good boy ? Or is it the duty of their job that they have to carry out >
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There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his headThat curled like a lamb's back, was shaved, so I said,"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.
Describing Tom Dacre's shaven head as a lamb's helps emphasis the innocence of the young children who had to work in these jobs. Also , it shows the lamb and the children having the same innocence as they both came from god.
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