Satiation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World :: Paradise lost Blazing World

Satiation in John Miltons heaven Lost and Margaret Cavendishs Blazing World crazy house is huge scarcely it isnt big enough. Within the text of Paradise Lost by John Milton, it is, A universe of death, which God by curse Created crime, for evil only good,Where on the whole told life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,Abominable, inutterable, and worse (II.622-6)There is no satiety in Hell. Eden, by comparison, is a relatively small place in Miltons epic poem, just now it seems to be an environment replete with satisfaction. Or is it? We students of experiential literature owe Milton a debt of gratitude for helping us to experience our forebears, that is Adam and Eves, insufficiency of satiation within a paradisiacal environment. This paper give seek the topic of satiety within that environment and, along the way, discuss the innovation of singularity found in Cavendishs Blazing World for small talk upon that satiation.M ilton begins at the warmness of his epic with an appeal to music, a universal and fulfilling language, regenerate us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heavenly Muse (I.5-6).He immediately places us after the fall and takes us beyond sentience with an invocation to a muse, only this muse is beyond all muses and this epic is above all epicsI thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song,That with no middle flight intends to soarAbove th Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. (I.12-16)Milton establishes himself as the legitimate teller of the tale and this tale will take us beyond the mythology of the GreeksAonian Mount and inoculate us against Hells prodigiousness. He is taking us beyond mythological or explanatory pictures of ourselves, to an area where we may bask in a greater comfortTaught by the Heavnly Muse to venture d avouch The dark descent, and up to reascend,Though hard and rare thee I revisit safe,And feel thy sovran resilient lamp (I II.19-22)In her note to the reader in The Description of A freshly World, Called The Blazing World, it is evident that Margaret Cavendish seeks to take us beyond mere studious thoughts, to a place sated with imagineAnd this is the reason, why I added this piece of fancy to my philosophical observations, and joined them as two worlds at the ends of their polesboth for my own sake, to divert my studious thoughts, which I employed in the contemplation thereof, and to pleasure the reader with variety, which is always pleasing.