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Paradise Lost The poem is divided up into 12 books. The verse line is English rattling(a) without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin. (Knopf, 1996) This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of writing. (Knopf, 1996) Book One proposes the whole subject of the poem of mans disobedience and the loss of the Paradise where God had send outd him. The serpent or Satan is talked about whom is the prime cause of mans fall. Satan who was once at Gods side had revolted and was driven out of heaven along with thousands of angels to a place of utter darkness, filtiest called Chaos.(Knopf, 1996) While they were recovering from being banished from heaven, Satan regroups them with a speech that they still have a chance to regain hea ven. In his speech he also tells them of a new world that is to be created along with a new being. To find out if this prophecy is true, Satan convenes a full council in his palace called Pandemonium. This book ends as the consultation begins. Book Two is where the debate among his council has begun and they are discussing basically three ideas. They are wondering if another battle forget help them with the recovery of heaven and if it would be detrimental to their efforts. Some are for this proposal and others against it. The third proposal is to find out the truth of the prophecy of a new world and a new being. Whether the being is equal to them, or inferior. Satan will undertake this journey alone, which is seen as a very honourable thing to do.... ...oo bitter of a man, as he had already lost just about everything except his ability to write at the very end. He will always be an icon in literature, and my look on life is broader for having had the chance to scratch th e surface of the man known as can buoy Milton.BibliographyHill, John Spencer. John Milton Poet, Priest and Prophet. London Macmillin, 1979http//axil.uttawa.a/phoenix/jm-ch-2.htmMarlowe, Christopher. Milton-Whats His Gig? milton.htmlwww.missouri.eduMilton, John. Paradise Lost. (Electronic version.) Internet WWW at URL http//dreamfarer.home.mindspring.com/milton.htm (accessed March 1998).Patterson, Frank Allen. The Students Milton. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. New York 1961 Steadman, John M. Milton and the Renaissance Hero. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967