PARADISE LOST BY JOHN MILTON

• . Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.

(a) Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us.

(b) Nine times the space that measures day and night
To mortal men, he with his horrid crew
Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,
Confounded though immortal.

(c) A dungeon horrible, on all sided round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe.

(d) Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all.

(a) "Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering: but of this be sure,
To do aught good never will be our task,
But ever to do ill our sole delight.

(b) If then his providence
Our of our evil seek to bring forth good,
Our labour must be to pervert that end,
And out of good still to find means of evil;

(c) Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive they new possessor, one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.

(d) Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

11. Explain the following extracts with reference to the context.
(a) His spear -- to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
Of some great ammiral, were but a want --

(b) Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn,
Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs found out their way:

(c) O myrids of immortal Spirits! O Powers
Matchless, but with the Almighty! --and that strife
Was not inglorious, though the event was dire,
As this place testifies, and this dire change,
Hateful to utter.

(d) Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife
There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long
Intended to create, and therein plant
A generation whom his choice regard
Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven:

1. . Milton's Grand Style in 'Paradise Lost'
2. . 'Paradise Lost' As a Renaissance Epic
3. . The Hero of 'Paradise Lost': Satan or Adam
4. . Responsible Person for the Fall of Man
5. . Milton's Justifying the Ways to God to Men