paradise lost
November 12th, 2007
[just a little side note: we’re still in the book-a-day blog advent to thanksgiving. thanks for books!]
my vivid mental image of the war in heaven, the fall of satan, and the subsequent fall of adam and eve all stem from john milton’s epic poem.
milton gives satan depth of character. he gives voice to adam’s, and especially eve’s, torment of soul.
since having my concept of the universe altered by milton, i’ve lived my whole life by a few lines in the poem’s fifth book, “freely we serve, because we freely love . . . in this we stand or fall.”
read it. it might change your life.
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i ‘had’ to read this in humanities…i think i should read it on my own. i might actually enjoy it.