Status Updates From Paradise Lost

“If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet
Extend his evening beam…” II, 492-3

“men only disagree
Of creatures rational…
and God proclaiming peace,
Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife
Among themselves, and levy cruel wars,
Wasting the earth…” 497-502

“…and reasoned high
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate,
Fixed fate, free will..
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.” 558-61

wish me luck cuz I don't even like poetry and especially not poetry from the 1600's and yet here I am. even bought the academic version so I could get all the help I need

The thing about Paradise Lost is that it's so near indecipherable that it doesn't matter where I stopped reading it or what was going on in the narrative. Regardless I don't know what is going on 🤷🏾‍♀️

end of book 2

“…how wearisome
Eternity so spent in worship paid
To whom we hate.” II, 247-9

“…or to sit in darkness here
Hatching vain empires.” 377-78

“…while I abroad
Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek
Deliverance for us all…” 463-5

“And so refused might in opinion stand
His rivals, winning cheap the high repute
Which he through hazard huge must earn.” 471-3

Finished the first book of paradise lost, definitely a challenging read so far. The notes at the back really help and annotating as I go to understand the events. I love Satan’s representation tho

I feel so fortunate to have one of the great epics in my own language