Milton's Poetic Inspiration in Paradise Lost

Abstract

밀턴의 시적영감은 그의 돈독한 기독교 신앙에 기초를 두게되므로, 하나님의 신성의 한분이신 성령에 근원을 둔다. 그러므로 그의 영감은 그의 이성이나 상상 또는 희합뮤즈에서 오는 것이 아니라, 성령으로부터 온다. 여기에는 그의 생애에 있어서, 육안으로부터 영안으로의 전환점에 변화가 생긴데 그 배경이 있다. 재산의 몰수와 눈이 멀게된 것은, 그의 영안을 더욱 밝혀 주게 된다.

그는 그의 영감을 불어 넣어 주는 성령의 하시는 일에 따라, 네 가지로 이름을 부쳤다. 즉 하늘에 계신 뮤즈, 성스러운 혹은 하늘의 빛, Urania, 그리고 하늘의 후견인 등이다. 밀턴의 영감은 성령께서 그를 영적암흑을 일깨어 주고 진리로 가르치며, 마음속에서 그의 시의 구절을 속삭여 주며, 그와 영적교제를 하는 것으로 그의 시의 방향이 이끌어진다. 여기서 성령은 그의 가까이에서, 매우 친밀하게, 마치한 사람의 친구처럼 구체적으로 일 하신다.

Milton's poetic inspiration is based on his firm Christian faith, so that it has the origin in the Holy Spirit who is a person of the Godhead. His inspiration, therefore, comes from the Holy Spirit rather than from the Spirit rather than from the reasonings of the intellect or his own imagination, apart fronts the Greek Muse. There is the transition of his life from the physical eyes to the spiritual ones in his necessity of the inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Loss of all his property and blindness rendered more acute the sight of spiritual eyes.

He calls his inspiring power, the Holy Spirit, by the four various names according to the offices of the Holy Spirit; Heavenly Muse, Holy or Celestial Light, Uranic, and Celestial Patroness. And these four names are connected with the types of Milton's inspiration. The function of Milton's inspiring poller is to illumine and instruct his spiritual darkness, to dictate his verses to him, and to communicate with him. And the Holy Spirit as his inspiring power is with him and works within him concretely and practically as a real person.

Milton's poetic inspiration is based on his firm Christian faith, so that it has the origin in the Holy Spirit who is a person of the Godhead. His inspiration, therefore, comes from the Holy Spirit rather than from the Spirit rather than from the reasonings of the intellect or his own imagination, apart fronts the Greek Muse. There is the transition of his life from the physical eyes to the spiritual ones in his necessity of the inspiration from the Holy Spirit. Loss of all his property and blindness rendered more acute the sight of spiritual eyes.

He calls his inspiring power, the Holy Spirit, by the four various names according to the offices of the Holy Spirit; Heavenly Muse, Holy or Celestial Light, Uranic, and Celestial Patroness. And these four names are connected with the types of Milton's inspiration. The function of Milton's inspiring poller is to illumine and instruct his spiritual darkness, to dictate his verses to him, and to communicate with him. And the Holy Spirit as his inspiring power is with him and works within him concretely and practically as a real person.