SATAN’S ROLE IN PL

Question 1

How many?

Answer 1

5

Question 2

1

Answer 2

Appeals to “learned ancients”, “Italian and Spanish poets” and the “best English tragedies” when justifying the lack of rhyme- “the invention of a barbarous age”
The Verse

Question 3

2

Answer 3

the first book “proposes … the whole subject: Man’s disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise … then touches the prime cause of his fall … Satan”
The Argument

Question 4

3

Answer 4

“Of man’s first disobedience” which first “Brought death into the world, and all our woe … Sing Heav’nly Muse”

I opening lines

Question 5

4

Answer 5

PL “pursues/ Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

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Question 6

5

Answer 6

Milton hopes that with the Holy Spirit allowing, “I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.”
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