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The 17th Century Literature
John Bunyan
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Three Kinds of Poets
John Milton
John Bunyan
John Dryden
John Donne
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Chapter 2 John Milton
Milton’s Literary Career
(1608-1674)
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Milton’s Literary Career
Chapter 2 John Milton
1. Early period: poems written in Cambridge and at Horton;
2. Middle-aged period: political articles; pamphlets;
3. Old years period: three giant works.
Based on his Political Career
Before the Revolution(16251639)
During the Revolution(16391660)
After the Restoration(16601674)
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Comments on Milton
in the 17th century.
He is famous for his power both in mind and in
writing.
learning, his different views and rigor, make him “a
figure of resistance” in English literature.
Of the First Period (1625-1639)
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Chapter 2 John Milton
Discussion
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The List of Milton’s Works
1. pamphlets on religious reform
Of Reformation in England
2. pamphlets on marriage and divorce:
Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

Areopagitica
Of the 2nd Period (1639-1660) in Adult Year
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Milton’s
Revolutionary Works
1651,
1) A pamphlet against the divine right() of the king.
2) People made the king, so the king should do everything for the people.
Of the 2nd Period (1639-1660) in Adult Year
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Milton’s
Revolutionary Works
5. The Second Defence of the English People , 1654,
1) An answer to the productions against the Commonwealth.
2) Fight for the liberty of the nations in the world and recover their lost liberty.
Of the 2nd Period (1639-1660) in Adult Year
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Milton’s Sonnets
(1) 18 English and 5 Italian sonnets
(2) They are compact and well organized.
(3) The language is simple and unadorned, but powerful.
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Works of the 3rd Period of (1660-1674)
Great Works in His Old Age
Paradise Regained

masterpiece
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An Analysis of Paradise Lost
Student’s Presentation
An Analysis of
Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost
An Analysis
Testament.
God and the expulsion() of Adam
and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
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Paradise Lost (1667)
Discussion
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Paradise Lost
An Analysis
2. Major characters:
Adam, Eve Satan, God, Michael
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Point of View
3. third person/ an omniscient third person point of view
Who is the narrator?
Milton, himself, actually.
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4. Themes
3) Sin
4) Pride
Satan’s pride
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4. Themes
5) Innocence
Innocence in Paradise Lost where no death, sin and lying exist
6) Lies and Deceit
Satan’s lies to Eve and deceit to the angels
7) Revenge
Adam and Eve are the innocent victims of Satan’s attempts to seek revenge against God.
8) Sex: Satan & his daughter; Adam and Eve
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5. Style
1) Latin words: “dulcet,” “panoplie,” “sapience,” “nocent”, “congratulant”, etc. for elevated and dignified effect
2) proper names: Aspramont, Montalban, Damasco,Trebison, Charlemain, Fontarabbia, etc. for richness, color, imaginativeness
Style in writing is not what is said but how it is said.
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5. Style
…Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless.
Why should their Lord envy them that? Can do they
only stand? By ignorance, is that their happy state…
——Paradise Lost
“”
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6. Symbols
2) Adam and Eve embody Milton’s belief in the________________,
craving (longing) for
innocence
knowledge
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6. Symbols
Of Paradise Lost
4) God’s angels are foolish, resembling the court of an absolute monarch.
5) Satan is a rebel against tyranny() and Satan and his followers resemble a ___________________________.
republican Parliament
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6. Symbols
An Analysis
6) Paradise
Than this of Eden, and far happier days" (12.463-465).
7) Paradise Lost, the title
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The Image of Satan
(Read the stanzas p. 108-110)
Pair Work
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The Image of Satan
2. He is firmer than the rest of the angels.
3. He has an invincible() heart.
Satan remains superior in nobility and welcomes his defeat and his torments as a glory, a liberty and a joy.
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The Image of Satan
4. Satan is the spirit questioning the authority of God.
5. Milton makes Satan as his own mouthpiece (spokesman).
Blake said Milton stood by the side of the devil’s party without knowing it.()
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An Analysis of Samson Agonistes
1. Basic information
Student’s Presentation
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Samson Agonistes
Samson Agonistes () is in the form of Greek tragedies.
It’s from the “Book of Judges”
in the “Old Testament” ().
Samson is Milton himself,
fighting for the freedom of his country.
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An Analysis of Samson Agonistes
The Themes, the Characters and the Style.
Group Work
Setting, Plot, Characters, Point of View, Themes, Style, Symbols.
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Samson Agonistes
bright sunshine
incurably, hopelessly
light
,
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Samson Agonistes
The sun to me is dark
And silent as the moon
When she deserts the night,
Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
having lost
of no moon light
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Samson Agonistes
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave,
Buried, yet not exempt,
From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs;
free from
advantage, honor
tomb
tomb
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Samson Agonistes
To all the miseries of life,
Life in captivity
Among inhuman foes.
extremely unpleasant in …
as a result
without freedom,
cruel, merciless
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Major Themes
Violence: caused by Samson, the revenge, the destruction of the God’s enemies.
Women: betrayal of Dalila, his wife
Religion: despair when he loses the God’s favor
Blindness: Samson’s inner and outer blindness
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Chapter 2 John Milton
Samson is Milton himself.
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Chapter 2 John Milton
1. Milton was political in both his life and his art.
Militant pamphleteer:
2. Milton wrote the greatest epic , Paradise Lost, in the English literature.
omnipresent
Discussion
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Brief Summary
3. Milton is a master of the blank verse.
In Paradise Lost, Milton acquired an absolute mastery of the blank verse.
4. Milton is a great stylist.
(biblical; conscientious rhetorical devices; Latinisms, resonance, )
5.Milton is admired for his sublimity() of thought and majesty() of expression.
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Online Assignments
Work on the Internet and find out more comments on Milton’s language?
2. How do you analyze Satan and Samson?
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Goodbye.