Milton’s Grand style

Milton’s Grand style

1. Milton’s Grand style Touqeer Raza

2. Biography John Milton Born in 1608 in London, England . Best Known for writing Paradise Lost….. John Milton was an English poet and author. Latin, Greek , French , English. Influence on 18 th century verse. Milton lost his sight in 1653. Died in 1674

3. Paradise Lost Paradise lost is an long epic poem. Milton write 12 Books for Paradise Lost. The first version published in 1667 consist on ten volumes. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged Into 12 books .

4. Milton’s Grand style Blank verse style Epic style Epic similes Rhythmic style Latinized style Elevated Speeches

5. Blank verse style Blank verse is un rhyme verse. It is very difficult to write well in blank verse that is why a few Poets have been successful in handling it. Paradise Lost is an blank verse poem. For Example . “The internal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heav’n with all his host”

6. Epic style A striking feature of Milton’s style in Paradise Lost is his use of epic similes. These are expanded to draw complete pictures. For Example. “As for remov’d from God and light of Heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost Pole.”

7. Epic similes Following the epic traditions of Homer and Virgil, Milton introduces the large number of epic similes which are scattered throughout in his works. Milton’s style consists in the excellence of these similes by which he conveys his meanings. The famous similes of the Book 1of Paradise Lost are:

8. Rhythmic style The measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long or short or stressed and unstressed syllables. For Example. “Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

9. Latinized style In ausonian land, Men called him Mulciber he does not says, ”pharaoh and his Egyptian horsemen, but “busiris and his memphian chivalry. “to suggest the splendor of an angelic trumpet he invents a periphrasis of vague magnificence”

10. Elevated Speeches The lofty tone is maintained in the speeches of Satan, as for instance in the speech to Beelzebub . one cannot help noting the rhetorical eloquence with which Satan encourage the fallen angle. For Example. What though the field be lost? All is not lost- the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immoral hate, And courage never to submit or yield; And what is else not to be overcome?

11. Conclusion: In brief, we can say that in Milton influences of the Renaissance and of Puritanism are apparent. He owed on his lofty and austere character to the Puritanism. He got wonderful triumph over imaginations which cause at it’s best in Paradise Lost…

12. John Milton says Nor from hell one step on more than from himself can fly By change of place.