Critically analyse the first 26 lines of Paradise
Lost (Book I)/
Bring out the significance of the Invocation of Paradise Lost.
It is the epic convention to begin the poem
with an invocation to the divine spirit to aid the poet in his great motivation
of writing Poetry. Homer thus begins
his Iliad:
‘Achilles wrath, to Greece the
direful spring
Of Woes unnumbered, Heavenly Goddess sing!’
In Odyssey the Muse is
again addressed to depict or to sing the wandering of Odysseus. Virgil too
begins his Aeneid with the words: “Arms and the man I sing….” Such
epical canon is also employed by Milton too in his Paradise Lost where the
first 26 lines constitute the part of invocation in which a pious address is
made to the Muse and states his theme of the Poem.
Like Virgil Milton directly states the
elevated theme of his, that is the ‘man’s first disobedience’. In a highly
Latinized verse he alienates the subject from The Book of Genesis:
"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 the loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat."......................................................................................
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