Milton
Milton - meaning Summary
Milton Praised, Nature Preferred
Tennyson addresses John Milton with high praise, calling him a divinely gifted voice capable of singing of Time and Eternity and evoking monumental, angelic grandeur. Yet the speaker admits a personal preference for gentler, sensuous landscapes: the brooks of Eden, cedar arches, and a refulgent sunset on an ambrosial isle. The poem balances public veneration of Milton’s epic power with intimate longing for pastoral beauty.
Read Complete AnalysesO mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages; Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel, Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries, Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean Rings to the roar of an angel onset— Me rather all that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean, Where some refulgent sunset of India Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle, And crimson-hued the stately palmwoods Whisper in odorous heights of even.
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