In elegant poetry of impressive attractiveness, Milton's poem references stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. yet one don't need to be a classical pupil to understand Paradise Lost. as well as its resourceful use of language, the poem incorporates a robust and sympathetic portrait of Lucifer, the insurgent angel who usually outshines his ethical superiors. With Milton's deft use of irony, the satan makes evil look strong, simply as satanic practices could appear appealing at the beginning glance.
Paradise Lost has exercised huge, immense effect on generations of artists and their works, starting from the Romantic poets William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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