FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Samson will not fight him.
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He does not want to fight Samson.
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He must hurry to catch up with Dalila.
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He has been called back to his hometown of Gath.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By the end of the poem, Samson, through expiation and regeneration, has regained a state of spiritual readiness in order to serve again as God’s champion. The destruction of the Philistines at the temple of Dagon results in more deaths than the sum of all previous casualties inflicted by Samson.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harapha, all proud and strong and unimpaired, is kind of like what Samson used to be. He represents Samson’s past. In fact, we could go even a bit further and think about Harapha as a version of Samson and their encounter as a confrontation between Samson and himself.
Detailed explanation-3: -My first reading of Milton (though I’ve heard of him for years). This is the biblical story of Samson the Nazirite whose strength depended on his hair, and who was betrayed by Delilah, treated as a Greek epic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samson Agonistes is unusual among tragedies in that its hero is already fallen at the beginning of the play, rather than, like Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus (or Othello, Lear, and Coriolanus), beginning in prosperity and, with a change in fortune, plunged into adversity.