Classical Poetry

Assigned by:Ma’m Saima Kanwal

Themes:

Group Members

Waheed Ahmad Gul Naz

Jarar Umer

Abdul Manan

Faiza Javeed

Waseem Akram

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AgendaThemes:

Introduction Fate and Free WillDisobedience and Revolt Pride

Eternal Providence InnocenceHierarchy and Order Lies and Deceit

Free Will and Predestination

Revenge

Milton's Subject: Fall Of Man

Language and Communication

Universal Interest SexGod’s Piety on Man Kind Justification of God's Ways

Love and Marriage ConclusionSin

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IntroductionTheme Definition

Theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly.

Disobedience and Revolt

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Paradise Lost is about the fall of humanity and the rebellion of Satan and his angels, so the plot and conflict almost entirely come from acts of revolt against the hierarchy of God’s universe.

Eternal Providence

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Milton says that he will also "assert Eternal Providence."If Man had never disobeyed God, death would never have entered the world and Man would have become a kind of lesser angel. Because Adam and Eve gave in to temptation and disobeyed God, they provided the opportunity for God to show love, mercy, and grace so that ultimately the fall produces a greater good than would have happened otherwise.

Hierarchy and Order

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Paradise Lost describing the Universal hierarchy and order that these events upset. In his 17th century view of the cosmos, Heaven exists above, Earth below, and Hell and Chaos below that. Within this geographically ordered cosmos, the most important hierarchy of Heaven is that of God as supreme monarch, the creator and ruler of the universe, and his “only begotten” Son as equal in rank, a separate person but of the same essence as God.

Free Will and Predestination

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In Paradise Lost Milton argues that though  God foresaw the Fall of Man, he still didn’t influence Adam and Eve’s free will. Milton’s God exists outside of time and so sees all times at once, and thus can see the future without actively affecting it. God specifically says that he gives his creatures the option to serve or disobey, as he wants obedience that is freely given, not forced. Some critics have claimed that the God of the poem undercuts his own arguments, however. Milton did not believe in the Calvinistic idea of “predestination” (that God has already decided who is going to Hell and who to Heaven),

Milton's Subject: Fall Of Man

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Universal Interest

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God’s Piety on Man- -Kind

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Love and Marriage

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Love is one of the Christian  God’s most important attributes, and Heavenly love also takes center stage early in the poem as the angels ceaselessly worship God and commune with each other in joy, and the  Son offers himself as a sacrifice for humankind out of love for them. when Adam and  Eve’s are created, the poem partly shifts its focus to mortal love and the idea of marriage.

Sin PARADISE LOST

Paradise Lost is basically a dramatization of the “original sin,” the explanation of how evil entered a world that began as  God’s perfect creation.

"Farewell happy fieldsWhere Joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hailInfernal world" (1.249-51).

Fate and Free Will

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"Nor had they yet among the sons of EveGot them new names, till wandering o'er the earthThrough God's high suff'rance for the trial of man" 

Pride PARADISE LOST

"How such united force of gods, how suchAs stood like these, could ever know repulse?"

Innocence PARADISE LOST

"and nowLed on, yet sinless, with desire to knowWhat nearer might concern him"

Lies and Deceit

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"Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foamThe pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,With fixed anchor in his scaly rindMoors by his side, under the lee" 

Revenge PARADISE LOST

"Thither full fraught with mischievous revengeAccurst, and in a cursèd hour, he hies"

Language and Communication

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Sex PARADISE LOST

Justification of God's Ways

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Conclusion PARADISE LOST

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The EndThanks All Of You

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