My aim is to do an essay to analyze Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. ... Paradise Lost is considered to be his masterpiece. It's a biblical epic poem. ... The theme of nature is also important in Paradise Lost. ... The final image of Paradise Lost is profoundly forward-looking, an image of gain through loss. ...
According to Neil Forsyth, John Milton's Paradise Lost is "an epic poem about the origin of evil" (Forsyth). ... They went on to argue that Paradise Lost's Satan deserves the "tragic hero status" (Kaiter and Sandiuc 453). ... Satan is portrayed this way in Paradise Lost. ... Milton writes the character of Satan in Paradise Lost in such a way that it makes it almost impossible not to like him. ... In the poem Paradise Lost, Milton's Satan crosses over to observe God's new world. ...
In the text Paradise Lost, Satan is very much a main character who has maybe the most dialogue and character development. ... He lost this battle and God banished Satan as well as his followers out of Heaven forever. ... Most readers of Paradise Lost would agree, after reading the first half of the poem they want to sympathize with Satan. ... The status of whoever is reading Paradise Lost is most likely in a similar boat, not in the sense that they are in something like hell, but that they work to end up in a better place. ... Never in the poem does Satan speak about not wanting to be on Eart...
Many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. ... Such is the case with the poems The Lamb and The Tyger. ... This poem is built on rhetoric questions, which make the poem sound more dynamic and as controversial as the nature of the human soul. ... So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. ... "The pastoral paradise of The Lamb is juxtaposed with the industrial furnace of The Tyger" (Vines 117). ...
The sub-title of the collection of poems verifies this, "Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul." (William Blake: The Complete Poems, 1977:104). A poem in this collection called "The Clod and the Pebble" shows differing emotions when discussing love. ... Blake emphasises the importance of contraries at the beginning of the poem, "Without contraries is no progression. ... Bloom claims that Blake was "uninterested in moral evil" (Bloom, 1963: 80), his purpose was more aesthetic as he felt Milton had failed in writing Paradise Lost. ...
