... standing up against a tyrannical enemy. What started the idea of Satan rebelling against God was Satan's jealousy of the Son of God. This where I believe Milton tried to instill the evil in Satan by having his passion come from jealousy, but too many people overlooked this and still felt for the fallen angel. The ... So when Satan decided to exact revenge on God, it is not hard to want to pull for Satan to be successful. What I assert is that Milton crossed himself up when writing about this. What readers forget is not what Satan feels, but why. This is what makes Satan evil and should d...

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... what it is to live in such a place. The finest example of this involves the depiction of Paradise throughout Paradise Lost. In his depiction, Milton uses his own experience and understanding to depict a place of perfection. Can he be accurate, however, without ever experiencing Paradise himself? In truth, ... cannot. Each individual reader most likely has their own idea of Paradise. Whether or not these ideas coincide with those of Milton, all of them, including Milton's, are incomplete. In Milton's case, one of the striking aspects of Paradise is that Adam and Eve must both work to maint...

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... what it is to live in such a place. The finest example of this involves the depiction of Paradise throughout Paradise Lost. In his depiction, Milton uses his own experience and understanding to depict a place of perfection. Can he be accurate, however, without ever experiencing Paradise himself? In truth, ... cannot. Each individual reader most likely has their own idea of Paradise. Whether or not these ideas coincide with those of Milton, all of them, including Milton's, are incomplete. In Milton's case, one of the striking aspects of Paradise is that Adam and Eve must both work to maint...

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... language type. It also includes many rhetorical devices. One final epic characteristic is it often begins in media res, or in the middle of the story. In Milton's Paradise Lost, many of these characteristics are clearly evident. The epic opens up with a muse giving the main idea and theme or the epic to follow. ... world, and all our woe, /With the loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat." (Milton, lines 1-5) This lets you know that Milton is going to tell the story of creation and the original sin and the results of it. The actual story part begins in...

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... appeal in different ways and some are not really comparable. I wouldn't attempt to compare The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - a poem I enjoyed at the age of seventeen - with Milton's Lycidas, which I had to study (and also enjoyed) when I was sixteen. But examiners love to make people 'compare', and so I suppose it is a valid exercise to look in a critical way ... words to express different emotions, ideas or pictures? Are there words that have their own specially nice sounds. Or words that create a special effect by their sound? The verse by Milton below has lots of lo...

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... emphasis on religious themes and an admiration of pastoral naivety. Blake longed for this natural beauty to be a part of England, and this is powerfully depicted in the beginning of Milton. "I will not cease from Mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land." In this poem, the beauty ... in "The Lamb". In the first stanza, Blake uses imagery of a 'stream' and a 'mead' as well as "clothing of delight, softest clothing woolly bright.' This Pastoral imagery, as seen in Milton, is a dream for Blake, it is his idea of a u...

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... rather in differentiation. The Renaissance period focused mainly on individualism. William Shakespeare's plays reflected mostly on an individual and their well-being. In "Paradise Lost: The Temptation of Eve," John Milton focuses on Eve and her temptation. In the Romantic period, many stories also reflected on individualism. The themes of the plays, sonnets, poems, etc is mainly of one person trying ... or hate for their significant other. William Shakespeare's sonnets told of love and hate while other poets and writers told of greed and envy. In "On His Blindness," page 417, Milton tel...

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... to read and write while working in his father's shop. While Blake received very little of a traditional education, he was well versed in Greek and Latin literature, the Bible, and Milton. Blake continued to grow intellectually through the influence of his brother Robert who died by consumption when he was twenty. After he saw his brother's soul "ascend heavenward clapping its ... ...

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... . Here, Blake surprises the reader by insinuating that, perhaps, God in Heaven could actually have created this awesome and fearful creature. Referring directly to the Bible and, in particular, to Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake goes on to ask "On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?- (7-8). In Christian mythology, it is well known how Satan was ... ...

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