Question

in il penseroso john milton describes how the poem's melancholy speaker prefers gentle and soothing dreams of sleep to the harsh light ofday. which who sets of lines in this excerpt from l'allegro contrast with those ideas

Answer 1

The lines in the excerpt from "L'Allegro" contrast with those ideas in "Il Penseroso":

"Married to immortal verse,

Such as the meeting soul may pierce

In notes with many a winding bout,

Of linked sweetness long drawn out,"

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Answer 2

"And Pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream" and "Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild."