“Paradise Lost Samuel Johnson wrote in the late 18th century: Viewing it is not a joy, it is an obligation. We read Milton for guidance, retired from harassment and overload, and look elsewhere for recreation. We abandon our master and look for our friends. “Nearly two centuries later, those seeking Milton’s guidance in 1667 became a work read primarily by professional scholars, but perhaps become a favorite among viewers of YouTube channels. Hochelaga Thank you for The new video above.
The first thing you need to know about Milton’s epic poems is to say Hochelaga Host Tommy Trerowney “tells the story of the fall of the human Bible, but strangely from Satan’s perspective.” Even if it never happened to you looking Paradise Lostyou have almost certainly heard one of Satan’s most memorable declarations.
There is also a decent chance, without knowing, “The mind is its own place, and within it, you can make the hell of hell’n, the hell’n of hell’n,” and without knowing which character speaks it. However, if you hear enough of his quotable quote, you may come to think that this Satan companion will ultimately give some good points.
Paradise Lost It had a similar effect on some of our early God-fearing readers. What poems seem to praise is not Satan, but God or man as language itself, as we read today. Thus, Milton’s Baroque grammar and severe Latin vocabulary constituted a large part of the work’s challenges and appeal. Equally notable is his obvious belief that language leads to the challenge of dealing with the most fundamental contradictions of truth, questions, and existence. Satan may not win – and certainly not at the end of the sequel, Paradise has recovered – But if he happens to have the best line, it’s just fascinating with the worse than the better, bigger, completely human, ours.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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