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Jun. 7th, 2002 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plural"Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
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."
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
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."
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Date: 2002-06-17 11:59 pm (UTC)in the (admittedly very small) bit of paradise lost i have read up to now, i find it striking that, even in a poem written by a christian who was a big fan of god and all, god comes off like a jerk and the devil is much more sympathetic
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Date: 2002-06-18 12:03 am (UTC)I am rereading it at the moment
hence the quote
I do hope you enjoy it as
much as I do
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Date: 2002-06-18 12:58 am (UTC)the class will be looking at his other poems as well, which - and again, i am basing this on very little - i do not enjoy nearly as much. his inspiration seemed to be running away with him in paradise lost, also the subject matter of satan and god interest me a good deal more than some dead english guy reflecting on his childhood