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Literature
"Evening in Paradise" is from the epic poem Paradise Lost written by John Milton. In summary, the poem describes the approach of evening and the animals settling in for the night—except for the...
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John Milton
The speaker's dilemma is that, although he wants to serve God through his talent for writing, he's having a hard time doing so because he's recently gone blind. He's caught between the impulse to...
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John Milton
It is the content of the quote rather than its source that motivated Milton to use it at the beginning of "Aeropagitica." In many ways, the excerpt reflects a central theme of the essay, which was...
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John Milton
This line is not from Paradise Lost, but from his sonnet known as "On His Blindness." Milton was born in 1608. He penned "On His Blindness" around 1655. (He was completely blind by 1660.) The...
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John Milton
Milton wrote about the most critical issues facing human beings, believed in freedom of thought, and is considered to be one of the most important writers in the English language. One reason why it...
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John Milton
The speaker of the poem, presumably John Milton, is lamenting the passage of time. Specifically the problem is that the speaker feels that he has accomplished very little in his 23 years of life....
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Paradise Lost
Satan is arguably the most interesting, perhaps the most sympathetic, character in Paradise Lost (1667 in 10 books; 1674 in 12 books). Although Milton casts him as the antagonist against Adam and...
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Areopagitica
One interesting point about Milton's style is his use of the classical rhetorical elements of ethos and logos while omitting pathos. To understand this, we'll define these terms, then examine one...
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John Milton
Critical analysis is a detailed and complex process that can not be done in the eNotes format or in accordance to eNotes objectives. However, what critical analysis entails is an examination and...
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John Milton
The two poems of "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" where mirth and melancholy are compared and contrasted, and it is clear that the poems are meant to be read together as each features a speaker who...
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John Milton
The English Renaissance was a historical period that roughly spanned the years 1500-1660. What marked this period as distinct from where it emerged from was a change in the perspective of human...
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Milton's use of Classical allusions to pagan mythology follows a well established English poetic tradition begun with Chaucer and, some say, perfected with Spenser in The Faerie Queene. Indeed, the...
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Sonnet XIX
In a comparative critical analysis of poetry, you want to analyze many things including structure, theme, tone, mood, tropes (four master tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony), figurative...
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Paradise Lost
When meaning is unclear, it is important to analyze a quotation in context with the rest of the text [I've inserted the whole contextual quote above]. You must ask questions like: Who is speaking?...
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John Milton
Lets look at how form is instrumental to imparting mood and idea in a work: convey: to communicate (a message, information, etc); to communicate; impart; make known (Collins and Random House...
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Paradise Lost
"Myth" is defined differently by non-academics and academics and in various ways by various scholars. There is a core meaning to "myths" that may not be present in every definition but that...
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Comus
With the official title of A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634: on Michelmas night, before the right honorable John, Earl of Bridgewater, Viscount Brackley, Lord President of Wales, and one of...
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Paradise Lost
Although Adam is presented in Paradise Lost as having a greater capacity for reason than Eve, she makes a logical suggestion in Book IX that if she and Adam separated for a time, they would not be...
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Paradise Lost
Whether Satan can be called as the “Hero” or protagonist of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has always been a struggle between moral/religious text as well as true literary interpretation. Satan...
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John Milton
The Renaissance is a period of history that relates to a fundamental change in the way that man began to think about the universe. It indicated a shift from more medieval ways of thinking about the...
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John Milton
The English writer John Milton penned these words in a self-published pamphlet entitled Areopagitica, which appeared in 1644 as a vociferous argument against Parliament's Licensing Order of 1643,...
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John Milton
John Milton grew up within a Puritan family. His education was grounded within religious ideology. He attended St. Paul's Cathedral School at the age of 12. Milton then entered into Christ's...
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John Milton
One indicator of why Milton can be said to have dominated his age is the language that we use today that was coined (i.e., originated) by Milton yet sounds modern and contemporary. Milton coined...
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John Milton
Milton is contrasting the seeming speed of life as it flies by and is finished to the seeming long length of individual days. He is also contrasting the ultimate end of human life with the ultimate...
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John Milton
Milton was a very religious man, as can be seen in his masterwork "Paradise Lost." He believed that he should devote his life to serving God with his writing. However, he went blind while he was in...
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John Milton
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John Milton
John Milton's Aeropagitica was penned in response to the Licensing Order of 1643, which in effect gave Parliament the power to exercise what has become known as prior restraint on controversial or...
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John Milton
To paraphrase a text is to summarize or explain it but especially to do so by rephrasing it in one’s own words. Thus a paraphrase of John Milton’s sonnet “When I consider how my light is...
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John Milton
Milton is asking himself what purpose he can have in life, now that he is completely blind. He was a deeply religious man and believed that the purpose of life was to serve God, which was what he...
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John Milton
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John Milton
Milton, by the time he wrote "Paradise Lost, was blind and out of favor in the political atmosphere, having been Oliver Cromwell's secretary up to his death in 1658, the same year he began his epic...
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John Milton
Milton combines the ambition of youth and divine will through the wonderment of Time (notice that he capitalizes the word, too, which seems to personify it or to give it power). The first line...
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John Milton
the works of John Milton(1608-1674) have been the subject of more commentary than any other English writer except William Shakespeare.scholars have placed Milton among 'the small circle of great...
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John Milton
Dear Sharief78, When I saw this question, it sounded vaguely familiar. Sure enough, I had already answere a similar question about a month ago (see link below). Since eNotes discourages multiple...
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John Milton
The English Renaissance brought changes that influenced people and how they viewed the world. After the death of Elizabeth I and James I, who were both great supporters of the arts of the...
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John Milton
Classical mythology and other classical allusions are used in a variety of ways in John Milton’s ode “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.” Some these ways include the following: In line...
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John Milton
I think the biggest theme of this excellent sonnet is the way that the world looks on achievement and expect visible signs of having achieved something or done something with our lives, whereas...
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John Milton
The Parliamentary licensing order of June 14, 1643 forbade the printing, binding, stitching, or sale of any "Book, Pamphlet, paper, nor part of any such Book, Pamphlet, or paper" without first...
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John Milton
This is perhaps one of John Milton's most famous poetic works after his epic Paradise Lost. One of the fascinating aspects of his life is that he actually went blind in his middle age, and this is...
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John Milton
John Milton's poem, "To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652" is a poem of praise for the Puritan leader who ruled England for several years after the insurrection that removed Charles I of England...
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John Milton
Milton, like many other poets of his era, often alludes either implicitly or explicitly (as in this poem) to the Bible. The Bible was the best-known text of this period. Some people (such as...
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John Milton
John Milton is regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. I will be happy to provide you with some details regarding his life. More information is available at the at the reference links...
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John Milton
John Milton (1608-1674) is best remembered for his epic poem, Paradise Lost, and is considered one of England's greatest writers. A scholar fluent in at least three languages, he served as an...
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John Milton
This moving sonnet starts off initially as a reflection on the strange way that time has of quickly passing us by. The speaker reflects how time, whom he personifies as "the subtle thief of youth,"...
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John Milton
The poet John Milton became blind later in his life, and this sonnet is one of the first that he wrote about his condition. The Biblical parable of the talents relates how a man who does not use...
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John Milton
In the poem commonly known as "When I consider how my light is spent," John Milton refers to a Biblical parable found in the books of Matthew and Luke. In this parable, a man was preparing to...
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John Milton
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John Milton
well i donno but Johm Milton was a puritan he was at the time of Jmes Stuarts and his son. he was religious and he wrote paradise lost while he was BLIND! but Edmund spenser was existed at the...
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John Milton
John Milton’s poem “L’Allegro” is a catalogue of descriptions of various kinds of pleasure. During much of the poem, Milton describes pleasures associated with the countryside. In line...
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John Milton
Well, you are sixteen years old, or something like that, right? Don't feel bad for not getting it. The poem was written by a young man who was a good seven years older than you are now. Thus fret...