Monday, September 13, 2010
थे तरी ऑफ़ क्नोव्लेगे
Abraham Cowley’s ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ is somewhat of a poetic form of the Garden of Eden story. Honestly I do not see the point of giving a poetic form of this story. It uses similar words and does not differ from any part of the story. So what is the idea behind it? Cowley uses no extreme poetic form that could drastically change the story and help him illustrate it in his own way. He does not add or take away from the original story itself. In what way does he make this story his own? But I did like the way he ended the story ended with ‘Instead of mounting high, shall creep upon the dust” because it takes a phrase from the bible and makes it poetic.
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Nick,
ReplyDeleteWhile you're right to point out that Crowley doesn't do much to 'enhance' our understanding of the fall (the way Milton does), but I wonder if we look closely at the form of the poem itself, we might not discover that Cowley does have something to contribure.