Knowing this simple background of both works can already create predictions of comparisons and differences in the writing expected from each author in what they wanted to convey to their specific audiences and how different the perspectives can be, as well as influence the purpose of their writing. ... One last clear difference is the title/profession of the mentality they each have for writing the work (i.e. poet and historian). ... It is important to understand that The Iliad was an epic poem in its originality, and written as one as its genre. ... The purposes of the writings differed thus ...

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Unlike many other authors and poets, Milton gives us many reasons to believe that his life is reflected in his writing. His whole-hearted activism on the part of the English rebellion of the 17th century, and the very severe condition that he wrote at least part of "Paradise Lost" in, seems to be blatant reasons to believe that his writing is as much a reflection of his exterior turmoil as it is a true inspiration of the mind. ... As Peter Herman writes in Warring chains of signifiers, "But by situating the Republic in Hell, both through allusions to the Parliament of Hell genre and the Etru...

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Dennis (1997) makes the point that modern storytellers in all genres tend to focus on the uncertain assumptions and skepticism or the mysterious aspects of myth as it is associated with or relates to their writing. ...

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