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PARADISE LOST & JOHN MILTONINFLUENCES OF MILTON TO WRITE SUCH AN EPIC

Presented byNazmul Hassan

Batch: 37th

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MILTON WAS INTERESTED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF CLASSICAL GENRES & THEIR RELATION TO ENGLISH POETRY

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF MILTON'S INFLUENCES IN WRITING PARADISE LOST  IS THE CLASSICAL EPIC FORM.HOMER, VIRGIL, DANTE, SPENSER

STARTED THE POEM WITH REFERENCING MUSE (BOOK I, LINE: 6)

•MILTON WAS INFLUENCED FROM GREEK, ROMAN & LATIN CLASSICS

THE 'SECRET TOP', THE HOME OF THE MUSES, IS 'OREB, OR OF SINAI', WHERE MOSES RECEIVED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

“SING HEAVENLY MUSE, THAT ON THE SECRET TOP

OF OREB, OR OF SINAI, DIDST INSPIRE

THAT SHEPHERD, WHO FIRST TAUGHT THE CHOSEN SEED,”

-(BOOK I, LINES 6-8)

MAIN THEME IS RELATED TO THE STORY DESCRIBED IN THE VERY FIRST PAGES OF THE GENESIS.

‘SON THE GOD’ & ‘FATHER THE GOD’ THIS CATHOLIC BELIEF HIGHLIGHTED WHEN THE SON MET ADAM & EVE

•MILTON WAS INFLUENCED FROM HEBREW BIBLE (OLD TESTAMENT)

THIS EPIC POEM WAS A CULMINATION OF MILTON’S LIFE.MILTON HAD MANY IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE THE UNITED

KINGDOM. UNFORTUNATELY, HIS IDEAS OF WHAT WAS BEST FOR THE NATION BECAME UNPOPULAR.

USED THE GREATEST KINGDOM OF ALL TIME AS ALLEGORY- HEAVEN. GOD, THE ALL-POWERFUL MONARCH, AND SATAN, THE ARCHDEMON AND ORCHESTRATOR OF THE FALL OF MAN.

PARADISE LOST STRONGLY REFLECTS MILTON’S POLITICAL WRITING, IN PARTICULAR THE READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH

IN THIS POEM THAT HE ILLUSTRATED THE WAY HE BELIEVED TRUE LEADERS SHOULD ACT, AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE SELECTED, THROUGH THE ACTIONS AND SPEECHES OF SATAN IN HELL.

•MILTON’S POLITICAL INFLUENCES

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S/PARADISE LOST BY JOHN MILTON (BOOK I,II,III, IX & X)ANGELS & DEMONS, 2000 (A HISTORY BASED THRILLER BY DAN

BROWN)OTHER ARTICLES FOUND ON INTERNET ABOUT MILTON’S PARADISE

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