The Uncovered English

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton "Awake, arise or be for ever fallen." Comment on line Satan says this to the fallen angels lying bewildered on the lack of fire. Satan calls out to them in a loud voice and tries to make them realise the "dire statement" that has overtaken them. He addresses them as princess, rulers, warriors, the first among the angels of Heaven. He asks them if such plight can overcome immortal spirits or they have chosen this place to resg their tired heroism. He also asks if they sworn to worship the conquerer in the humble and low posture. The conqueror God sees Cherub and Seraph roll in the fiery lake with their weapons and flags scattered. Soon His ministers of venegance seeing from the gates of Heaven their advantageous position, will come down and trample on them in their dejected or will pierce through with their thunderbolts ans fasten them to the bottom of this gulf. So, Satan asks them to...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton "... Cruel his eyes, but cast sings of remorse and passionbr Whose eyes are mentioned here? How do they reflect his present state of mind? The eyes of Satan surveying the number, status faces of his armies are mentioned here. They reflect Satan's sorrowful and remorseful state of mind. It pains him to see that countless angels are doomed to suffer everlasting pain in hell. These angels have been deprived of Heaven because of his fault, and stripped of celestial splendours due to his revolt against God. He is overwhelmed with intense emotion at the thought that though the angels have been driven away from the region of bight and joy for his fault, they still remain faithful to him. Thus when he tries to speak to his followers, tears burst forth and stop him from speaking thrice. At last he succeeds in speaking, but his speech is punctuated with sobs. Satan...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton Explain the Vallambrosa simile. In Vallombrosa simile which occurs in lines 301 - 304 of Paradise Lost Book 1, the fallen angels are compared to autumnal leaves: "... Who lay intranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombtosa, where the Etrurian shades High over - arched embower;" The word Vallombrosa is derived from Latin 'Valles Umbrosi" which means shady valley. It is a name of a beautiful valley about 18 miles east of Florence where Milton Passed. The fallen angels floated thickly in confusion on the surface of the lake. They looked like the autumnal leaves that fall and lie scattered on the streams in the shady valley of Vallombrosa where shady Tuscan trees from bowers with their high branches arching overhead. These leaves choke the brooks as the fallen angels cover the surface ...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton Why is Satan called Infernal Serpent ? Infernal means hellish or fiendish. The word has its rot in 'inferno' meaning hell, especially with reference to Dante's 'Divine Comedy.' Infernal Serpent thus implies the serpent of hell. Satan assumed the form of a Serpent when he came out of hell to attempt Eve to violate God's command not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Eve could not resist the temptation and ate the forbidden fruit. Pursuaded by her, Adam too did so. The son of God descends to Eden and pronounced doom to Adam, Eve and the Serpent. Satan returns to Hell with the news of his success, but suddenly he and his followers are changed into Serpents. The figurative connotation of the term Serpent is treachery..Milton calls Satan as an infernal serpent because Satan tempted Eve in the form of a serpent and was sent bac...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton How do ambition and prayer comingle in Milton's invocation in Paradise Lost Book - 1 ? In pursuance of epic convention laid down by Homer and Virgil, Milton begins his Paradise Lost Book - 1 with an invocation of 26 lines. Milton proposes to sing "Of Man's first disobedience" to God in eating the fruit of the forbidden tree in Paradise which brought death to the world and all his sufferings till Jesus Christ restore human being to Paradise. The theme proposed is a grand, mighty and universal one. It represents the origin of sin its consequences and the fight of Good and Evil. Milton insists upon the sublimity of his subject. He aims at soaring not to the middle air but to heaven. He will rise higher than Mount Helican which represents classical poetry and will treat: "Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." ...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton How does Beelzebub respond to Satan's first speech Satan's first speech in Paradise Lost Book - 1 is addressed to Beelzebub and meant to rouse him from stupor. In reply to this speech, Beelzebub addressed him as: "O Prince, O chief of many Throned Powers," under his leadership the seraphim fought a dreadful battle against God and emerged God's high suprimacy. Beelzebub visualised the calamitous events which resulted in their disgraceful defeat and their tragic overthrow from the reign of light. Beelzebub hopes that as the mind and the spirit of the fallen angels cannot be conquered, they will soon regain their glory and their happy Heavenly state. He thinks God to be omnipotent who has left them their spirit ajd strength intact, so that they might endure their sufferings to satisfy his wrath. He warns the fallen angels that their unimpaired strength will do them no good of they are destin...

Paradise Lost Book - I John Milton "All is not lost" - What is implied loss? How does the speaker catelogue all that is not lost? Because of his inordinate pride and ambition to rise above God, Satan waged an impious war in heaven. Satan with the rebellious angels suffered a defeat and was expelled from heaven to bottomless pit of hell. Thus the implied loss is Satan's defeat in the war against God and consequent expulsion from heaven. In his frist speech Satan Catalogues What is lost and what is not. He says: "All is not lost, the unquerable will And study of revenge, immortal hate And courage never to submit or yield;" Satann means to say here that it does not matter if he and his followers have lost the battle. Only a battle has been lost. The war has not been lost. They still hate their invincible determinatio...