"Milton"

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This paper discusses how the great Romantic poet, William Blake, is known for his revolutionary ideas and his fiery attacks on everything he opposed. It looks at how his work is usually not very complex in nature but since it is connected with the infinite and discusses some imaginary elements, one needs to read his poems more than once to make sense of them. It demonstrates how this is exactly what is required when reading Blake's "Milton", a poem that respectfully yet firmly attacks Miltonic Christianity of submission and service. It analyzes the poem in the light of Milton's actual philosophies and theology in an attempt to understand what Blake was trying to say in his visionary poem .

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"Another highly interesting transformation that we detect is available in the form of Satan in this poem. We notice that Blake's idea Milton was not an enemy of Satan but rather an ally because both seem to be traveling in the same both. Critics are of the view that Milton was indirectly supporting Satan and sympathizing with him when he presented man as a banished victim in Paradise Lost. Therefore Blake took this view into consideration and showed Milton as an ally of Satan initially thus confirming the critics' views. It is only later in the poem that we see him fighting the evil forces and create a more humane image of God."

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