FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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to justify the ways of God to humankind.
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to justify the ways of humankind to God.
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to justify the ways of Heaven to Hell.
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to justify the ways of Hell to Heaven.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the opening of Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his Muse, the Holy Spirit, to grant him “Eternal Providence” that he may achieve his goal for the epic: to “justify the ways of God to men” (PL I. 25-26). Milton believed in a God that was infinite, eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient (Fallon 33).
Detailed explanation-2: -The most important duty of an epic poet is to select a moral to illustrate and establish. In the Paradise Lost Milton has chosen his theme to establish a moral. This moral is ‘To justify the ways of God to men. ‘ Thus the Paradise Lost fulfils the first and the most important condition of an epic.
Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose or theme of Paradise Lost then is religious and has three parts: 1) disobedience, 2) Eternal Providence, and 3) justification of God to men. Frequently, discussions of Paradise Lost center on the latter of these three to the exclusion of the first two.
Detailed explanation-4: -At the next place, Milton justifies the ways of God to men in a religious manner. He proves this fact that God has the ability to bring good out of the evil action of Adam and Eve. For this, God created the world. God placed this new creation in heaven in the position vacated by fallen angels.