FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN MILTON
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Paradise Lost
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Il Penseroso
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Areopagitica
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Lycidas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Once Paradise Lost was published, Milton’s stature as epic poet was immediately recognised.
Detailed explanation-2: -The whole book is an epic poem – which is a long story told in verse form. The poem is written in blank verse, or lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, and is over 10, 000 lines long.
Detailed explanation-3: -Milton wishes to show that the fall, death, and salvation are all acts of a just God. To understand the theme of Paradise Lost then, a reader does not have to accept Milton’s ideas as a vindication of God’s actions; rather the reader needs to understand the idea of justice that lies behind the actions.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Importance of Obedience to God The first words of Paradise Lost state that the poem’s main theme will be “Man’s first Disobedience.” Milton narrates the story of Adam and Eve’s disobedience, explains how and why it happens, and places the story within the larger context of Satan’s rebellion and Jesus’ resurrection.