Person of Imagination

I have always been a person of imagination and using it to turn words into a better and bigger picture through my readings. During my reading of Milton's poem "Paradise Lost" I used my imagination as if I were there and brought it to life. I want to prove the poem is very much epic as any that I have read in the past. My examination of the poem will uncover the details and facts which make Paradise Lost an epic poem.

I consider Milton's poem "Paradise Lost" to be a prime example of an epic poem. Epic is used in many forms of literature and one of those is historical. This poem is considered a virtue and in many cases a story straight from the bible itself. I remember awhile back in my younger years going to catholic school for my first holy communion and having to read this story over and over. The definition on alpha sixty seven summarizes a lot of important fundamentals of an epic "a prolonged plot poem rejoicing paramilitary heroes, summoning divine inspiration". The work is most definitely "extended" as it has twelve chapters making it a very long and breathtaking read to accomplish in one sitting. Marvelous inspiration is understood purely by looking at the list of characters; The Devil, God, Jesus, Adam and Eve, etc. as well as the main subject of a man's sinfulness. Furthermore, the basic theme of good versus evil which appears in epics is present in this one with the epic (sorry had to do it) struggle between God, Man, and Satan.

I really like how intense and revaluating the poem is, it really has a lot of power in it and is very intriguing even after knowing and reading the story a hundred times. I know after reading the poem there is a huge difference between the religious story and John Milton's poem. Because in the poems Satan is considered to be in a heroic role and in the religious story he is out casted as the villain and pure evil. Paradise lost goes in debt about obedience as well as hierarchy. Gods son and angel Michael goes into his brief with Adam over what will come of the land the earth and the human existence and in this you get the picture of the universe, the earth and heaven, which bring the earth into the middle and is considered hierarchy in its nature due to gods will in the poem.

I am really getting the picture and epic when the story is incredibly long and explaining each individual sequence and then cuts off them and goes more in debt. Disobedience plays a huge role in the poem and is stated by Milton at the first of it as well. God put the tree there for that very reason to be disobeyed and eventually he was by his own creations due to Satan's cunning way with eve. When I looked the word up epic I got long poem which is stated in the passage and derived from oral tradition. After I read the poem I could see where it derived from and how it was considered epic. I have always been told the story and had my family relate back