ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem is written in blank verse, or lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, and is over 10, 000 lines long. Milton had become blind by the time he composed much of this poem and so dictated it to different scribes including his daughter, Deborah.

Detailed explanation-2: -Miltonic verse Milton’s most notable works, including Paradise Lost, are written in blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. He was not the first to use blank verse, which had been a mainstay of English drama since the 1561 play Gorboduc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Milton intended to write in “a grand style.” That style took the form of numerous references and allusions, complex vocabulary, complicated grammatical constructions, and extended similes and images.

Detailed explanation-4: -The grand style constructs a sense of loftiness, largeness, magnitude, and highness in the mind of the reader. And such a feeling originates in the reader’s mind when they read “Paradise Lost”.