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This is especially true of the similes, many of which are borrowed from earlier epics, and so enter Milton’s poem with a cluster of associations – some
excitingly troublesome. At the end of book iv of Paradise Lost Milton likens the good angels (who are preparing to fight Satan) to wind-tossed corn:
th’ angelic squadron bright
Turned fiery red, sharp’ning in moonèd horns
Their phalanx, and began to hem him round
With ported spears, as thick as when a field
Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends
Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind
Sways them; the careful ploughman doubting stands
Lest on the threshing floor his hopeful sheav
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