1. What is the genre of 'Lycidas' and how does Milton approach it? Is his approach to the genre of 'Lycidas' parallel in some ways to his approach to 'Comus'?
2. Dr. Johnson wrote that in Milton's poem 'trifling fictions are mingled' with the 'most awful and sacred truths, such as ought never to be polluted with such irreverend combinations.' Is Johnson's critique justified?
3. A contemporary critic writes that 'Lycidas' criticism is “an effort to bind and clamp together a universe trying to fly off into separate bits.' Do you agree with this evaluation? What are the separate bits to which the critic refers? Does the poem have a discernible structure? Is there a progression from one part to the next? Or does Milton show himself unable to control the different materials of his poem?
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