Invocation

Question 1

opening of poem

Answer 1

Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/ of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste/ Brought death into the World

Question 2

invoking the Muse

Answer 2

Sing, Heavenly Muse - Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song

Question 3

His intention to go beyond

Answer 3

That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme.

Question 4

Dove

Answer 4

with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad’st it pregnant:

Question 5

ending of invocation

Answer 5

What in me is dark
Illumin, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the wayes of God to men.

Question 6

Critics - Sandra Gilbert (feminist critic)

Answer 6

Milton has a God complex