Milton's multi-layered poem "Lycidas" is a literary work with a variety of interpretations and meanings. One of the many angles from which we can attempt to understand the poem is the meta-poetic level. Meta-poetics is quite a wide range of ideas, which generally can be described as dealing with authorship and the poet's relations with the audience and the poem itself, as well the exploration of the process of writing a poem. The meta-poetic, or …showed first 75 words of 4266 total…

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