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[单项选择]Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of
A. Robert Bums.
B. William Shakespeare.
C. John Milton.
D. William Blake.
[单项选择]Paradise Lost is Milton’s masterpiece. Its story is taken from the Bible, about "the fall of man", that is, how Adam and Eve are tempted by Satan to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and how they are punished by God and driven out of Paradise. In Milton’s words, the purpose of writing the epic is to "justify the ways of God to men", but apparently, Milton is uttering his intense hatred of cruelness of the ruler in the poem. By depicting Satan and his followers as well as their fiery utterance and brave actions, Milton is showing a Puritan’s revolt against the dictator and against the established Catholics and the Anglican Church.
In the poem God is no better than a cruel and selfish ruler, seated on a throne with a group of angels about him singing songs to praise him. His long speeches are not pleasing at all. He is cruel and unjust in punishing Satan. His angels are stupid. But Satan is by far the most striking character in the poem, who rises
A. a review of Milton’s Paradise Lost
B. an introduction to Milton’ s Paradise Lost
C. a depiction of the cruelness of the British ruler
D. an introduction to English literature
[简答题] Paradise Lost, one of the greatest poems in the English language, was first published in 1667.
Milton had long cherished the (47)______ to write the definitive English epic, to do for the English language what Homer and Virgil had done for Greek and Latin, and what Dante had done for Italian. He had (48)______ planned to base his epic on the Arthurian (亚瑟王的)(49)______, which were the foundational myths for English (50)______ , but later turned his attention to more (51)______ questions. He decided to focus on the foundational myth of (52)______ itself, the Genesis ( 圣经 之 创世纪 ) account of creation and fall. It was an ambitious project, for Milton was determined to attempt "things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme,’’" and his success is indicated by the esteem in which the poem is held to this day.
Milton’’s epic poem received mixed reactions in the seventeenth century, and, over the years, has continued to arouse both praise and (53)______. Yet, its admirers have always be
