The Poetry Fix: Comus, Part Three

About this episode

Erika Kyba reads an excerpt from Milton's Comus and discusses the character's use of rhetoric.

Join Erika Kyba to read an excerpt from Milton's Comus, in which the titular trickster spirit is introduced. She discusses Comus's use of rhetoric, mixing the pleasurable with the destructive and so using it to bait his listener.

People in this episode

Host: Erika Kyba

Topics covered

• poetry
• literature
• rhetoric
• Milton
• Comus
• analysis

Keywords

• Milton
• Comus
• poetry
• rhetoric
• literary analysis
• trickster spirit

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Milton's Comus

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