ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem (12 books, totalling more than 10, 500 lines) written in blank verse, telling the biblical tale of the Fall of Mankind – the moment when Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and God banished them from the Garden of Eden forever.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Milton began Paradise Lost in 1658, he was in mourning. It was a year of public and private grief, marked by the deaths of his second wife, memorialised in his beautiful, and of England’s Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, which precipitated the gradual disintegration of the republic.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” “Solitude sometimes is best society.” “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”