ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Epic Poetry, Simile, Aeneid
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Originally published in 10 books, revised into 12. *milton tries to write a christian epic, where there is only one god, angels come down to help in the way other gods do in the iliad and the aeneid. *encyclopedic about the thing that is founded, the total history of that thing. Original sin: eve touches the apple, convinces adam to too, with the help of the. What the poem is going to be about; teaching you how to read the poem. Book 1 guides you how to read the rest of it, with man"s first disobedience and. Line 1: the fruit. of man"s first disobedience, not the first disobedience which was done by. Angels, milton"s backstory to genesis snake, which is satan, the devil milton messes around with the idea of things that come first, with origin, etc. the result of man"s first disobedience.
