FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PARADISE LOST JOHN MILTON
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First Person Narrative
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Short Story
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Epic Poem
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Novel
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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: -Epic poems contain characters of heroic figures. Paradise Lost contains the same. John Milton sketches two great characters in this poem; Satan and Adam. It is one of the most important characteristics of an epic poem that the poet creates extraordinary personalities.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Paradise Lost, epic poem in blank verse, one of the late works by John Milton, originally issued in 10 books in 1667 and, with Books 7 and 10 each split into two parts, published in 12 books in the second edition of 1674. Many scholars consider Paradise Lost to be one of the greatest poems in the English language.
Detailed explanation-5: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.