/lit/ - Literature

>>20088772
>reads like a christian fan fiction self insert into the iliad

Tell me your opinion for when you've actually read it

>>20088910
ok

>>20088910
reads like a christian fan fiction self insert into the iliad

It literally is fanfiction for the bible, there is no way to fairly deny this.

>>20089474
people hyped this up way too much for a cynical asshole like me desu, maybe i had too high expectations

The Pilgrim's Progress > Paradife Loft

>>20088772
what even is the problem with fanfiction?

>>20088772
I am reading book VI right now and the register of images feels like an anime. Milton’s rhetoric is too thick, and the characters too lofty for it to have any effect. He seems to be under the impression that repeating or referencing old tropes with “loftier” subject matter makes his material more grand or more effective than the materials he references or attempts to surpass but usually the effect is the opposite (the Iliad for instance is much more immediate and ime effecting). Milton is at his best, and contrary to the lot of people who criticize his “latinisms,” when he strains his syntax to perform the action that it describes. That is probably his greatest contribution to the language. But as a whole it feels like Paradise Lost is continually dragged down by its subject matter and the ambitions (often tastelessness) of the author.

>>20089856
this.

>>20088772
John Milton
Like Ossian but not as good

itt retards attempting to read poetry

Whose paradise was really lost in Paradise Lost?
Was it Satan? or was it Adam and Eve?

>>20090884
Damn...

>>20088772
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>>20089907
Finish highschool before posting here, if only to spare us your banal bullshit.

>>20090915
you will never be a woman

>>20090915
ywnbarw

itt a bunch of cringe zoomers throwing words like "anime" and "fanfiction" around dismissively because they can't read/ think properly. Every male 23 and younger should just fucking kill himself

>>20091132
This entire board is this. I've given up trying to help. I try to give good advice on here too and get called a larp every single time.

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>>20091146
How do I learn to think properly?

>>20089856
That's why it's called Paradise Loft.

>>20091132
You're projecting your own buzzword-addled mind onto others.

>>20088772
Actually this is the reason why it's so based

>>20091241
So you would defend the sort of person I'm criticizing? If so, provide a defence. If not, you're simply a triggered faggot zoomer