Recently I RE picked up Paradise Lost by Milton and I have to say that I was still as intilrigued as I was two years ago. I had started it in brit lit 428 but we had only got over books 1,2,3,7, and 9 and I have to say was very disappointing we didn’t go through the entire poem. Yes it’s a poem haha written in prose but it is absolutely brilliant. The history behind it is brilliant also but that’s a story in its own but I don’t want to touch on that. The first book (there are twelve books In the poem sorry for not clarifying earlier) is set after this cosmic war between angels and Satan is trying to make sense of what’s going on and the fallen angels are speaking on how to get back and each of their plans could work but Satan’s was most impacting.
The reason I enjoyed and learned so much from this poem is to step back and take each scenario into consideration from each view point. I love that this book gives Satan’s view, Eve’s view Adams and God’s. I am a faith walking individual and not saying I follow Satan but the fictitious character in this poem was ground breaking. It gave sympathy to a character whom individuals are suppose to automatically hate because of a name. This poem just ahhh there is so much to stay but what I was getting at is even Eve’s view opens people’s minds to a different side. There are many views to view a woman for example there is the Eva complex Eve complex and Madonna complex ect. But the Eva complex is this representation of sin and how she was at fault and hence why woman have pain while birthing and so on but this poem gives her side to sympathetic form. She was left out ill-informed and was swayed because information and inclusion was promised. If Adam had not done his job correctly then (hypothetically) the fall would not have happened.
There is divine order which is mentioned in the poem but also the Bible and in Christianity and catholicism, God >man(husband) >woman(wife) >kids (children) but what ended up happening was Adam received and asked questions from the angels while Eve was left alone and no communication. Adam was made to take care of the earth and his wife yet he excluded her from information.
Any person made to not be alone and is left alone they will seek attention and that’s exactly what happened she seeked attention in the wrong places. But then again the command was also given to Adam not to eat the fruit because of the divine order so due to Adams blind love he disobeyed. How is that Eve’s fault and that’s the question. When the poem was written the huge question at Melton’s time was if we were pre-destined meaning when or before an individual is born he or she is already set to go to heaven or hell. What the point was that no we are not. We were given creative will and that is why we chose our lives. Not to get into a bible study moment so I’ll stop here but if you want a challenging read pick it up an do you have questions ask I’d be more than happy to have conversations or book study with any one. Thank you for your time.
Ideologies
I know this may be a little far fetched.. But had any one really thought about war? A three letter word (in the English dictionary) containing two ideologies, hundreds die and millions of dollars needed for repair. Why do hundreds upon thousands die for two people’s ideologies.
We all have them and can’t think without them and once we leave one we enter into another. Our identify are based of ideologies. For instance boys get blue blankets and girls get pink it even starts before the mirror stage, before language and symbols. Our name is the first introduction into labels of ideologies into society. We don’t even get to chose. The next is religion or whatever your parents believe and so forth. Back to my point though in understanding that not two people are the same and we’re born with the same upbringing and may or may not have the same mind thought, why can’t that be excepted and grow a deeper understanding of each individual and learn what they have to broaden horizons?
Instead nations have gone to war, lost people: father’s sons mothers daughters and so on for two people’s disagreements.
Why don’t two adults who are in charge of the happiness and freedom of their people. Sit down and have a logical and rational discussion with third party board members and look out the outcome. Now we have nukes and chemical were far that could wipe out the human population in little under a week. How idiotic is that to nuke people over disagreements of two nations ideologies.
I thought we were ration mind and thought beings but I must be wrong. I went back and looked at an identity paper I wrote in an upper division course a few years back and just had a need to regurgitate what I wrote because a nation is a part of an identity and the ideologue it brings. I just have a hard time looking back at history and seeing so many deaths and villages to towns to countries being destroyed. It saddens me so to believe that people could do this. Then again it also sickens me that people would elect certain people that are sociopaths. But that’s politics and I won’t touch on that because politics are as dumb as the day is long. I have read so many books and theories and philosophies on politics and one that I can look back on is Pluto’s allegory of the cave and letters to the Republic X and it was brilliant but unlike Plato I think art and poetics are important. Just a few word for thought but I have a different ideology than most.
Lack of sleep.
When that second wind hits
All I start to think of is
“what’s next”
My mind races without a sound
Not one solid thought but a continuation
Of things colliding, crashing into the walls of my mind
What do I need to do who do I need to please
Will I be enough
One day one night I’ll be able to have clear solid thoughts
And lay my head down confidently and sleep
Sleep through the troubles of the world
Sleep through the heartbreak and decisions you’re not sure you should have made
Sleep through the moments others miss Just sleep.
Yes this is free verse and very different
And yes I warned you my thought of collision not formulating
Feeling like a slam poem where I have an uncatoragized rhythm
Wishing to feel my mind slow down instead of wander
Pondering what thoughts will collide next
What muscle will I workout or cook tomorrow at work
What will my body think want to go shopping for Halloween
My mind racing racing racing.
Time to try to sleep sleep sleep.
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