...brow, is represented by the great English poet4 as roaming over the universe exclaiming: "Me miserable! Which way shall I fly? Infinite wrath and infinite...despair? Which way I fly is hell: myself am hell." Now, sir, precisely so is it with his progeny, the first-born of hell, the system of American slavery;...

...despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heav'n. (Paradise Lost, TV, 73-78) Milton's version of absolute abandonment is, if anything, more extreme...

...described the tortured and panic-stricken internal state which resulted from Satan's envy: Me miserable! Which way shall I fly? Infinite wrath and infinite...devour me opens wide To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. (Milton 1667: 80, lines 73-78) Satan's attack on God's creativity and on Adam and Eve's love...

..."infinite despair," and wound in ever deepening convolutions of his own misery and complicating deception: Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the...opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. (PL 4:75-78; italics added) from the largely unchallenged assertiveness of "The American Scholar" and...

...poesía. Aquí Milton concede voz a Satán, leyendo a éste en Lowell, quien expresa: "Me miserable! Which way shall I fly / Infinite wrath, and infinite...despair? / Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell" (IV. Versos 73-5). Leemos un triple proceso de asimilación de voces y de espacios imaginarios. Se...

...cursed be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable!5 which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; my self am Hell;" And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To...

...has developed Bertram's attitude and eventual fate along the lines of Milton's Satan. Me miserable! Which way shall I fly? Infinite wrath and infinite...opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. (Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 73-78) 112. LGM, 3:316-19. 113. LGM, 3:338-41. 114. The various...

...on to Earth, the crucial journey is the one which he cannot take, since he carries Hell within him: Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite...lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide. . . is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left?22 Here the only form of space which...

...is no end to the experience of falling through the bottom of one hell into the flames of the next: Which way I fly is Hell, myself am Hell, And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n. •* Paradise Lost...

...Nay curs'd be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.60 Gulliver, as white people, can accurately say these lines to himself. To say "my evil destiny"...