If I choose to read them I will undoubtedly get a greater understanding of the poem, especially in all its complexities and subtleties that both first-time readers and poetry neophytes (like myself) will miss. I basically have two choices: Read the poem with or without the notes. I have the beautiful (but really heavy!) Modern Library Edition and it seems that each page of Paradise Lost is filled with maybe 50 words of the poem and 300 words of notes on the poem. To read it with or without all of extensive notations. Posted By MarkBastable at Tue, 5:05 PM in Paradise Lost || 1 Reply Thee off to sleep as might a hand-cupped draught Were style and content not enough to zonk To whom Milton is Hist’ry (not High Art!)Īs ‘twere a mammoth cold-preserv’d in ice. Thou mayst have wondered what the bloody hellĬould be the gain, of knowledge, or of joy,ĭespite whate’er grades thou wouldst achieve Which – and here we’re harking back to ‘poem’ –Īs perhaps the greatest blank-verse epic workĪnd ploughing through it, line by turgid line, Thrown careless ’pon the darkling firmament
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Mayhap in youth thou wast obliged to read, Thirst for revenge led him to cause man's downfall by turning into a serpent and tempting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.-Submitted by Anonymous Originally he was called Lucifer, an angel in heaven who led his followers in a war against God, and was ultimately sent with them to hell. It also includes the story of the origin of Satan. It's the same story you find in the first pages of Genesis, expanded by Milton into a very long, detailed, narrative poem. Paradise Lost is about Adam and Eve-how they came to be created and how they came to lose their place in the Garden of Eden, also called Paradise. Milton's Paradise Regained (1671) dramatizes the temptation of Christ. Many other works of art have been inspired by Paradise Lost, notably Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation (1798) and John Keats's long poem "Endymion" (1818). The Romantic poets William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley saw Satan as the real hero of the poem and applauded his rebellion against the tyranny of Heaven. Much has been written about Milton's powerful and sympathetic characterization of Satan. The main characters in the poem are God, Lucifer (Satan), Adam, and Eve. Paradise Lost tells the biblical story of the fall from grace of Adam and Eve (and, by extension, all humanity) in language that is a supreme achievement of rhythm and sound. So the Father is defined by everything he creates and what he creates is beautiful and good.An epic poem in blank verse, considered by many scholars to be one of the greatest poems of the English language. The human love of Adam and Eve, apparently in contention with divine love, actually depends on it for its existence. Although the Father reveals little directly of what he is, he is defined by his Son and by his creatures: man, the animals, the physical universe. The Father has been accused of lacking love, but the love which the Son embodies originates with the Father, and is the necessary basis in Paradise Lost for just power. Nevertheless, his speeches are transcendentally poetic. The manner of Milton's God has offended, but he speaks as he must: with absolute certitude, with spareness and logic, without recourse to metaphor or sensuous appeal. Paradise Lost presents, in contrast to the abuse of authority in the world, a vision of God's ideal justice, corresponding to the vision of bliss in Eden. This response is ironic because Milton too opposed authority, but only usurped human authority, since from the perspective of Adam all men are brothers. Milton's God consistently evokes an unfavorable reaction in the modern reader, the result not so much of our emotional response to Christianity as of our antipathy to absolute authority.
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