![]() Why there is evil in the world and why it’s our fault and not God’s. In other words, he’s going to explain to us why there is suffering in the world. And he was very concerned with being virtuous, and making us virtuous too.Īnd this is the big problem with Paradise Lost for a lot of readers, because he says right at the beginning of the poem that he’s writing it to improve us, to ‘justify the ways of God to man’. This is a caricature of Puritanism, but it’s a fair bet that cakes and ale were not high on Milton’s list of priorities. ‘Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?’ So when when Malvolio reprimands Sir Toby, Toby’s comeback is: In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, there’s a memorable scene where Sir Toby Belch is being told off for being drunk and disorderly, by Malvolio, who is described in the play as ’a kind of Puritan’. He was literally a Puritan, a member of the religious faction who famously banned Christmas when they came to power after the English Civil War. Of all the great English poets John Milton is the hardest to love. ![]() His vastness: Fleec’t the Flocks and bleating rose,Īs Plants: ambiguous between Sea and Land In Hillocks the swift Stag from under groundīore up his branching head: scarse from his mould Rising, the crumbl’d Earth above them threw His hinder parts, then springs as broke from Bonds,Īnd Rampant shakes his Brinded main the Ounce, The grassie Clods now Calv’d, now half appeer’d Pasturing at once, and in broad Herds upsprung: Those rare and solitarie, these in flocks The Cattel in the Fields and Meddowes green: In Forrest wilde, in Thicket, Brake, or Den Īmong the Trees in Pairs they rose, they walk’d: Limb’d and full grown: out of the ground up-roseĪs from his Laire the wilde Beast where he wonns Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, Op’ning her fertil Woomb teem’d at a Birth Let th’ Earth bring forth Soul living in her kinde,Ĭattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth,Įach in their kinde. With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said,
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