and life being short. The author often compares art and women to each other, both being dangerous. Words, women, and love can turn on you. Coming to the middle of the poem, Milton writes about wild, sexual creatures and wild places with no sign of humanity. “Rough satrys danced, and fauns with cloven heel” (ll. 34), fauns being untamed, erotic ! animals. Line thirty-nine, “Thee, shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves,” (ll. 39) exemplifies a desert as a place of undomesticated, feral territory…
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