FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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one who is in agony.
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one who inflicts agony.
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one who struggles for or champions a cause.
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one who predicts the future.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greek ("a contestant in the public games"), from ("contest, struggle").
Detailed explanation-2: -Samson Agonistes, (Greek: “Samson the Athlete” or “Samson the Wrestler”) tragedy by John Milton, published in the same volume as his epic Paradise Regained in 1671.
Detailed explanation-3: -Samson Agonistes draws on the story of Samson from the Old Testament, Judges 13–16; in fact it is a dramatisation of the story starting at Judges 16:23. The drama starts in medias res. Samson has been captured by the Philistines, had his hair, the container of his strength, cut off and his eyes cut out.
Detailed explanation-4: -Samson Agonistes is unusual among tragedies in that its hero is already fallen at the beginning of the play, rather than, like Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus (or Othello, Lear, and Coriolanus), beginning in prosperity and, with a change in fortune, plunged into adversity.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the poem, he is characterized as a man who is extremely proud of his great feats in battle, even to the point of egotism, yet who also has unwavering faith in God, who he believes communicates with him in some unspecified, internal manner.