FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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Satan lays dazed on the burning lake.
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Satan assembles his fallen legions.
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Adam and Eve fall from the state of Paradise.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Milton opens Paradise Lost by formally declaring his poem’s subject: humankind’s first act of disobedience toward God, and the consequences that followed from it. The act is Adam and Eve’s eating of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, as told in Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
Detailed explanation-2: -Satan was an angel who aspired to overthrow God, and started a civil war in Heaven. God defeated Satan and his rebel angels and threw them out of Heaven. They fell through an abyss for nine days and then landed in Hell, where they lay stunned for nine more days.
Detailed explanation-3: -What major event has happened before the beginning of the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton? Satan and the fallen angels have been expelled from Heaven.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The theme of Book I of Paradise Lost is resolution and perseverance in the face of overwhelming defeat. As the book begins, Satan and those angels who he swayed to join him have fallen from heaven, becoming demons.