Discuss to what extent Paradise
Lost (Book-I)
follows the conventions of an epic.
“Epic” is the name given to
narrative poetry which deals, in dignified and elevated style, with some
important action, usually heroic. (An epic is a narrative poem, of considerable
length, of exalted style, celebrating heroic adventures, mythical or
historical). The great examples of classical epics are the Iliad and
the Odyssey of Homer, which are unmatched in any other language.
In Latin, the Aenied by the ancient poet, Virgil, is almost equally famous. The
Iliad, a poem in twenty-four books, has as its central theme the wrath
of Achilles. The Odyssey, also a poem in twenty-four books, deals with the
adventures of Odysseus. Aeneid is a poem in twelve books: it is a national
epic, designed to celebrate the origin and growth of the Roman empire, the
ground-work of the poem being the legends connected with Aeneas.
Paradise Lost can properly
be classed among epic poems. It is undoubtedly one of the highest efforts of
poetical genius and, in one great characteristic, majesty and sublimity,
it is fully equal to any known epic poem, ancient or modern. It has the
Graeco-Roman form of the epic which follows ancient models. Its
aspect, its divisions, and its style are those of the Iliad or the Aeneid. It
depicts a unique event, which is the fall of man. The subject is derived from
the Old Testament and it is astonishing how, from the few hints given in the
scripture, Milton was able to raise so complete and regular a structure. The
subject is one for which Milton alone was fitted and, in the conduct of it, he
has shown a stretch both of imagination and invention, which is
perfectly wonderful. Besides, the nature of this theme is such as to give the
poem a universal character..............
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