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John Milton (1608-1674)

John Milton (1608-1674). I.General introduction John Milton:one of the greatest English poets his masterpiece Paradise Lost: considered the greatest English epic, Miltonic style: a grand style with long and powerful blank verse and the theme of universe . II. Paradise Lost

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John Milton (1608-1674)

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  1. John Milton (1608-1674)

  2. I.General introduction • John Milton:one of the greatest English poets • his masterpiece Paradise Lost: considered the greatest English epic, • Miltonic style: • a grand style with long and powerful blank verse and the theme of universe

  3. II. Paradise Lost • 1.The themes • 2.Image of Satan • 3.His sympathy with Satan • 4.blank verse • 5.run-on lines (enjambment) • 6.difficult sentence structure

  4. 7.quotations • 1 The mind is its own place, and in itself /Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven .(Book 1, 254) • 2 Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.(Book 1, 263) • 3 Long is the way/ And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.(Book 2, 432) • 4 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round/As one great furnace flamed—yet from those /No light, but rather darkness visible/Served only to discover sights of woe

  5. III.Additional information:Miltonic(Italian)sonnet • meter: iambic pentameter • rhyme scheme: abba abba cde cde(cdcdcde) • one octave(8-line stanza)+one sestet(6-line stanza) • octave: problem; sestet: solution • (cf English/Shakespearean sonnet: 3 quatrains+one couplet)

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