The holy Spirit, which in the book of genesis was the driving force for the creation of the world, that holy Spirit is being invoked by Milton suggests how grand his actual scale is compared to others and thus creates a particular deviation from norms of invocations in epics. This biblical resonance further resonates with grand ambitions and the unparalleled task Milton is going to perform. This heavenly Muse of Milton is the Holy Spirit of God itself. Milton while trying to access the epic status of the epic also uses the concept of muse, but he distinctively differentiates his muse from the classical muses. Greek poets used this convention of invoking muses which were the 9 daughters of Zeus to aid them and inspire them. "Sing, Heav'nly Muse," says Milton as he invokes the Heavenly Muse to aid him and inspire him in his voyage to compose his epic. This makes the language used by Milton rather simplistic and effective, owing to the unique emphasis on certain syllables and the beat present in the epic. The words "disobedience" and "heav'ns" contain fewer syllables to fit them in iambic pentameter's norms. Owing to this, Milton was not restricted by the boundaries defined by the constraints of rhyming, which allowed him to address his subject more freely. Immediately it strikes that there is an absence of rhyming and the subsequent presence of "blank verse" in the iambic pentameter style of writing.
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He inaugurates his epic in "medias res" via an invocation, which essentially sets up the whole epic as he starts his epic with grandeur and immediately announces his main subject, i.e., the first disobedience of man and the subsequent result of the same Milton writes that it is because of that disobedience that brought death to our world until "one greater Man," referring to Jesus himself, restored their position. Milton restructured the whole idea of heroic valor and introduced duality of biblical spiritual idea and conventional heroic idea, adding Christian spirituality to the scenario. As usual conventions suggest, for example in Aeneid and the odyssey, praising military honour and chivalry is hailed as heroic verse. Milton's epic hence contains heroism, however, Milton takes a different approach to his heroism in the poem. He states that his measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as he continues to criticize those who chose rhyme. Milton appropriated classical characters and legends with that of dominant Christian and biblical scriptures owing to again, the mood of that era.
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whole comment on the verse is strongly politically inspired as there exist specific examples and statements which directly correlate to his puritanical views. As mentioned earlier, with the inclusion of the note on the "verse" in 1668, Milton defends his epic to stand by the classical epics of Homer and Virgil. It deals with the saga of Biblical legend of man's first disobedience, which holds Satan as a glorified diety or the fallen angel and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The whole poem is extraordinarily crafted in the meter called iambic pentameter or the blank verse. Milton's writing directly upheld civil liberty and attacked institutional order, and he advocated for the facts and only supreme authority, thereby residing in the bible. As already being a well-known fact, the era also has a great deal of impact on the literary forms produced. As Milton published the first edition of his Paradise lost in 1667, England entered its "Restoration era" in 1660, which encouraged such artistic forms. First published in the year 1667, it manifested 10 parts which later were increased to 12 parts in 1674 with the inclusion of an argument and a note on the verse in the year 1668. A-Paradise Lost is an "epic" poem composed by john Milton during the Renaissance period.