FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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both statements end up happening that day.
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both statements end up not happening that day.
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Samson is echoing the older prediction of the prophet Enoch.
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both statements will later be fulfilled by Christ.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Himself blind when he wrote Samson Agonistes, Milton depicts Samson, the once-mighty warrior, as blinded and a prisoner of the Philistines (“eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves”). Samson conquers self-pity and despair, however, and is granted a return of his old strength.
Detailed explanation-2: -To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half.
Detailed explanation-3: -hair. The drama takes place after Samson’s wife Dalila has cut his hair, robbing him of his strength. He’s imprisoned in Gaza, blinded by his enemies the Philistines. In this drama, Samson finds himself at his lowest point.