Abstract
A consideration of the poem’s structure in terms of the pagan cyclic and Christian linear time-patterns, which in Paul Tillich’s contemporary theological terms may be regarded as tension between space and time concepts, gives credence to the fact of the poem’s unity. An examination of Milton’s meticulous arrangement of pagan and Christian mythology is a valid, unifying, critical approach to the poem and a refutation to critics who describe Milton as an eclectic who lacks the ability to systematize his materials. Particularly the Druid-Orpheus-Hyacinth references, for the suggestive and associative value, thus, thematic impact within the cyclic-linear pattern will be studied in this paper.
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