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I am struggling with this book. Leopardi and Milton seem to be saying the same stuff, but i find one enchanting and the other tedious.
Miton shares Leopardi view about how the poems and epics have to be natural, but they are doomed with classical influences and influences from other poets. Leopardi expresses with fervourous passages and milton by introducing Medussa in his otherwise christian epic.
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Miton shares Leopardi view about how the poems and epics have to be natural, but they are doomed with classical influences and influences from other poets. Leopardi expresses with fervourous passages and milton by introducing Medussa in his otherwise christian epic.
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Mar 07, 2020 07:15AM
Leopardi revolts againsts forms -- "All faculties reduced to art becomes sterile." And Milton breaks them, yet it's tedious. The long running never ending sentences don't work in my favour as well. And i just read László Krasznahorkai whose sentences run longer than the time one may take to pronounce his last name.. :D
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This has been on my currently reading shelf from June. I have read it on and off ever since, atleast tried to read. Picked it up every month so far, The number of times I have read first book is hilarious . So i decided this weekend, this has to be the last effort to read this. And ofcourse i started with a distraction, re-read first two books, then read Aeropagitica, then flickered through irresistible Zibaldone. But, well i atleast came back to read book 3 this time. So perhaps? As to why this long struggle. I could just power through and read it - But then that would be pointless, why even read it if i don't try to make meaning from each verse?
The question of DNF'ing is also not plausible, isn't something offering resistance supposed to be more desirable and consequently easier to achieve?
So yeah, i will persist with Paradise lost this time around. Against my initial plan i will also be reading Zibaldone in parallel, sorta like an antidote to drudgery..
