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The “Paradise Lost” reveals Milton as a humanist poet as well as a puritan. ...
Until Paradise Lost we have usually known the classical epics of Homer and Virgil that dealt with human virtues such as heroism, honor and tales of war. ...
In the first lines of Paradise Lost, Milton describes a muse similar to the strategy of Homer and Virgil. ... Milton again finds a way to combine these two strategies in Paradise Lost; for example, in Book 4, we encounter a paradox: Milton describes Eden as a pastoral and outstanding place and uses a lot of physical images like the classiest: Eden is “(r) olling on orient pearls and sands of gold” (238, 1537)/ “flowers worthy of paradise” (241,1537) but as he is a hardcore puritan he finds a way to solve this paradox. ... Satan is often called a sympathetic character in Paradise Lost, despite being the source of all evil, and in the first chapter the reader is presented with some of Satans frustration.
Approximate Word count = 752
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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