Paradise Lost

John Milton did not back out of his promise saying that Paradise Lost would be unlike any other poem. Just like he had said he had created no rhyme scheme. At first I expected the poem to be exactly like Genesis but it actually wasn't. He had his own unique variation on the Bible. What makes Paradise Lost even more interesting is that in class we learned that Milton was basically blind when he wrote it. It seems impossible that he was able to dictate most of Paradise Lost. I enjoyed its unique variations from the typical Adam and Eve story. I liked in book 2 when Satan opens up a forum with the other devils. It was a unique perspective to write that some of the devils choose to say that God still had not completely punished them and that they still had hope. I also like when the devils said that they wanted to make Hell mimic Heaven. When you think of the two, they are the exact opposite, one firey and burning and the other imagined to blue skies and clouds. They could never be the same.