Paradise Lost

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 The epic poem by Milton John opens on the lake of ell that seems to be fiery in nature,

where the fallen army of angels find themselves chained together with their master Satan

chained. Satan, accompanied by his lieutenant Beelzebub stand up and shout, calling the rest join

them. Banners fly and music play as the army of rebel angels catch the attention of many, they

are also defeated and tormented by remain loyal to their general (Milton, 1674). The temple they

create is terrible though great then Satan calls for a meeting to discuss the course of their next

action. There are various suggestions given by the fallen angels. Eventually a suggestion is

brought forth by Beelzebub who proposes the transfer of the battle to a new field, and this new

battle field is a place called earth. They believe that earth is the new place where God has just

created living being known as man. When compared to the angels, man is regarded as less

powerful, however, amongst God’s creation, man is the favorite of all. A proposal is made by

Beelzebub that they seek revenge against God, which can only be achieved by swaying man to

their side, which is corrupt. Satan then offers to explore the place where man is living for

purpose f finding out more about man so that man can also be corrupted. By banging on their

swords, his fallen army unanimously supports the idea.

The early verse which was composed by Milton was in Latin, and was in an educated

person’s fashion. However, as soon as he reached his third year at Cambridge, he showed

decided to abandon this kind of fashionable poetry. Unlike the educated classics of the present

day, who are found of imitating Latin and Greek versification, Milton’s objective was devise

means of rehabilitating the English poetic tradition, which he achieved through the establishment

of English poetic tradition as flowering or extension of the classical tradition. According to how

he so himself, he was a poet with an extended lineage, back to the Greeks through the Roman’s.
Like Virgil and Homer before him, Milton eventually become the epic poet of the nation of

England.

The poetic vocation under which Milton became the heir is both religious and

nationalistic in terms of character. The epic poet records the people’s religious history; where he

acts as the prophet historian. Therefore, according a letter wrote by Milton to Charles Diodati,

“the bard is sacred to the gods; both his lips and heart breath the indwelling Jove, and he is also

their priest.”

Milton’s work is driven by patriotism and religiosity. On the other hand, some of the

ways in which he could best serve God was to follow his vocation a poet. On the other hand, his

poetry would serve the nation of England before religious and noble ideas in the highest forms of

poetry. In other words, Milton tried to write poetry which would serve to teach in a more directly

or indirectly didactic (Anderson,2000). What emerges from the twin impulses- one political and

one religious sees Milton developing into a national board and a religious poet. Lastly, Milton

manages to harmonize his two voices, becoming a Christian singer as well as a poet, in Paradise

Lost.

One important thing to not is that not only does Milton in Paradise Lost, Justify God’s

ways to Human beings in general, but he also justifies his God’s way to the people of England in

the years between 1640 and 1660. That is to say, Milton was telling the people of England that

they had failed to found a good society by deposing their own king, and the reason as to why

they had to welcome the monarchy. Like Eve and her Husband Adam, their own weaknesses,

their own passions, their own lack of faith, including greed, led them into committing their own

sin (Wheat, 2008), . The blame couldn’t be put on God, for expelling eve them from Eden, nor

could God be blamed from the corruptions and trials that befell the nation of England at the
commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. For Milton, the failure of the puritan revelation was

synonymous to people’s inability to govern themselves in accordance with God’s will, instead of

a royal dictator. The opportunity had come for England for becoming an instrument for God’s

plan, however, it ended up failing to realize its self as newly born Israel. If we to evaluate

Paradise Lost, it was more than just a piece of art. In fact, it was a political and moral treatise, a

poetic analysis of the course that had been taken by the English people. Paradise Lost was started

by Milton in 1658 and was concluded in 1667. Very little of this poem was written by Milton’s

own hand, since he was unable to see in the entire t project. Instead, he made the required

revisions with the help of an amanuensis who would read the texts back to Milton after it was

dictated. Later on, Milton’s daughters described him as a cow that kept on pacing about in the

room until the arrival of amanuensis to unburden him of all the verses stored in his head.

According Milton, he claimed that a nighttime agency of angelic muses was bought the

dream about Paradise Lost to him while he was asleep. In addition to advancing itself into

mythology, one troubling feature of the poem is brought by his blindness: the inconsistencies of

the plots, which were occasional (Stephanie, 2019). Since it was impossible for Milton to read

the poem by himself, the only thing that made it easier for him was memories of preceding

events in the narrative, and were in some cases faulty. However, when infrequent defects in plot

are put aside, Paradise Lost is more of a masterpiece. Together with plays by Shakespeare,

Paradise lost by Milton is one the poems that have a very strong influence in English literature

and is also provides the basis for proof texting in the theory of modern poetry.

After the Fall of man, Adam and Hiss wife Eve are sent out of the Garden of Eden by

Michael, who was sent by God. However, prior to doing so, Adam is told by Michael what man

will become until the coming of the Son to earth.

 Adam is grateful, for the son will descend down to earth correct the wrongs done by

Adam and Eve. They are then escorted out of the garden of Eden.
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Milton", Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 3 

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religious superstition in The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and Paradise lost, Amherst, N.Y.:

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