...horrors which are held just outside perception. (The prosody of its list also suggests a Miltonic hell: 'Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death / A Universe of death', Paradise Lost, II, 621—2.) The poem as a whole is enclosed by three rhymes, the first three and the...

...kind of smoke would rise off the surface of the muck. Sometimes the sludge itself would make a noise." "Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things." Love Canal residents and their children began to experience "mysterious ailments, unexplained sores,"...

...datk and dreaty vale They pass'd, and many a region dolorous; O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp; Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death, A universe of death. — Milton, for example, was able to produce in his readers the same gratifying srate of "featful delight"...

...dark and drearie Vaile They pass'd, and many a region dolorous, O're many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death A universe of death. (MPP, II, 618-22) However, following the second refabulation, the Shelleyan speaker takes a turn that...

...representations; here the confused devils march through a Region dolorous. O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp. Rocks. Caves. Lakes, Fens, Bogs. Dens, and shades...inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hi/rfrns, and Chimeras dire. (619-281 Such a dreary, barren landscape underscores...

...and drearie Vaile They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O're many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign 'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydra's, and Chimeras dire. (PL 2.618-29; emphasis mine) The...

...and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inalterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and...

...categorically af- I, v, 35). Above him laden fruit trees are iust O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 625 Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign 'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and...

...and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades...nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,0 Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons...

...seems a Heav'n. (4.75-78) Satan's description of himself as hell identifies him with death, as hell is "A universe of death, which God by curse / Created...evil only good / Where all life dies, death lives" (2.622-24). Death is the negation of being and identity, the poem's metaphysical evil.21 However, Satan's...