Paradise Lost Flashcards
P.L published in
1667
P.L.
Written in ___ form
Blank verse
Of mans first
Disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal tast brought death into the world and all our woe
Muse places
Mount oreb, sinai desert, sion hill, siloas stream
Ooet intends to soar above
Aonian mountains
Covered with blood of human sacrifice , worsipped in ammonila and rabba
Moloch,
Queen of heaven with curved horns
Astoreth
Sea monster , man torso fish tail
Dagon
Satan flag raised by
Insignia
Azrael a cherub
Seraphs insignia
Shone like meteor
Leaded the excavation
Mamon
Advocate renewal of all out war
Moloch
Main Architect of pendemonium
Mulciber( vulcan)
Who argues satan ?
Milton heavenly muse?
Abdiel
Urania
Lord of the flies
Beelzebub
Known b/w Euphrates
Ashtaruth female
Baalim male
Foul curse of son of moab
Chemos aka peor
Thammuz
Mesopotamian god , river turns purple due to his blood
Belial
Most obscene, renounce war due to sloth
Lives in Damascus on banks of abhana and pharphor
Pagan god
Rimmon
Themes
Subject
Free will, disobedience, revenge and pride
Fall of satan
What in me is
Dark
Illumine what is low raise and support
That to the height of this great argument
I can assert thy eternal providence
And justify the ways of god to men
The mind is its
Own place , and in itself can make a heaven of hell and ,a hell of heaven
What eill they use insted
Trickery and guile