ENGL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Narrative Poetry, Egotism, Theism
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Completely blind by 40; wrote the poem at 50. Credits divine forces that would help him think of it at night and people would transcribe it during the day. God uses chaos as raw material to create the world. Book 3: heaven the universe/the world: the physical world. Begin at extremes that are not the human reality > to humanity (brief) > adam and. Shifts in character and setting is signi cant: e ects our reception of the poem content. Entering the poem through satan: counter-intuitive for a devout christian; milton draws us into the world of satan in a sympathetic way. Epic: a long narrative poem held in elevated style. Style: lofty; referred to as milton"s grand style . It is deliberately unusual; syntactical form of words that has a latin quality. Line 6: odd word order, sing is displaced to the end. The verb is at the end of the sentence in latin.
