Question

Complete the sentences based on your reading of this excerpt from "Il Penseroso" by John Milton:

Where I may sit and rightly spell
Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew,
And every Herb that sips the dew;
Till old experience do attain
To somthing like Prophetic strain.
In this poem, when the speaker says he "may sit and rightly spell," he refers to .
The phrase "Prophetic strain" means .

Answer 1

The effort required to be a visionary.

The poem talks about the pleasures of the solitary man walking away during the evening. This poem is established in the mind of the speaker as he looks forward to visiting the places that he hopes a goddess named Melancholy will take him. The speaker will suffer a task that will outcome in experience, and because of it he will be in pressure, an effort spent that some forecasters had after getting some revelations.