John Milton's work
Discuss two of Milton's works where his strong distinctive personality appears.As we are studying the era of the renaissance we must not forget its central literary figure who is John Milton. Milton appears in a very sensitive period when London was living a struggle between the king Charles' followers who are called the Cavaliers and the parliaments who named themselves the Roundheads represented by the Puritans. John Milton is a puritan poet. He plays a very great role in this transitional period. He reflects the great shift from the Renaissance to Restoration is his poems. Milton has a very distinctive and strong poetic character. All the poets of his age have tried to imitate the two poetic figures John Donne and Ben Jonson, but the story was different for him. His connection with those poets was very weak. He respected Shakespeare very much and admired the lightness of the Spenserian poems and was touched by Jonson's unities of wr
Like any other poet, Milton has tried to reflect his own ideas and personality in his works. Like the girl, Milton remains glorious and victorious till the end. In fact virtue gave her the power to resist at the end. Its scenes don't appeal to mind nor to the ears, but to eyes except one scene when the girl begins to sing hoping the echo of her song will reach her brothers; So, they may come to rescue her. In this poem, like all the other poems, it is the music of language that attracts us. As the title indicates this is poem is on the occasion of Christ's birth. iting, but the connection that tied him to those poets was very weak. It is Milton's personality that appears here. Milton identifies himself with the girl. According to him women are weak creatures. After that, Milton wrote a masque entitled Comus and an elegy entitled Lycidas. In all these poems the characters are allegorical, they don't move, the themes are not dramatic they don't have that dramatic dimension because there is no dramatic action. In Comus the common theme is about virtue. The employed imageries are high suggested; the meaning is also important and significant, in this poem there is reflection of the conflict that Milton always felt between the appeal for old pagan forces and the appeal for Christianity.
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