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    Lost Generation in Hemingway´s Sun Is Also Rises Lost generation is a term, which was originally coined in a conversation by Gertrude Stein, a member of the expatriate circle in 1920's Paris, describes a group of poets who were born around 1900 and Ernest Hemingway made this nickname popular in his book. Especially in the novel Sun is also rises. These authors experienced the World War 1 and in their works they described the situation, feelings and emotion during these years. They were different

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    the great poets, as his writing style emulates that of older texts, he repeated references stories written by those great authors, and the fact that his book is about the creation of everything. First, I will talk about the way Milton writes Paradise Lost. This is significant, as his writing style is similar to Virgil, an ancient Roman Poet. Next, I will discuss Milton's idea of the gods of old in the Christian world, and how this idea links the ancient texts to what he is writing. Finally, I will discuss

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    Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained as Epics of Political Satire under the Guise of Spiritual Epics: A Critical Inquiry Abstract The paper points out the intention of ‘Satire’ and inquires into the biographical, historical, sociological, religious, economic, political and literary contexts of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and Paradise Regained (1671). It underscores the poignant example of John Dryden’s verse satire, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), which is modelled on John Milton’s political

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    Paradise Lost was written by John Milton in an effort to explain why, and how, the Fall of Man occurred; but he does this not by reiterating the biblical Genesis story, but by providing readers with an imaginative and poetic re-creation of the story. He is able to retell the story, “Fall of Man,” while also expressing his own perspective and personal truths through the characters. Milton also seems to meet most, if not all, of the epic poem conventions, with this epic, consisting of over ten thousand

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    TE subject: Paradise Lost, by John MILTON Sources: the poem Words: around 2221 (Please note that the quotes are not included in the word count. Neither is this little bit you’re reading) Paradise Lost is a long biblical epic poem that John Milton had planned twenty years before its publication in 1667. Milton wanted to produce something equivalent to the works of Homer (Iliad), Dante and Virgil, a long narrative, as it speaks about long journeys, that relate the story of a hero, who is often meant

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    Christian who took a broad and bold stance in many of his works in depicting the Bible in one way or the other. Some of these works are Samson Agonistes, Paradise Regained, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, and most famously known, Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost tells of the fall of mankind through Adam and Eve, very similar to the story that is in the Bible. This epic poem embodies many different stories and imagery taken from the Bible several times. John Milton was not the only writer to depict some

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    consequences. In the passage from “Book IX” of Paradise Lost, John Milton indirectly conveys the “cause and effect” concept, initially stemming from Eve’s decision to eat the Forbidden Fruit, resulting in her fall from grace and into humanity. Milton ultimately focuses on describing Eve and her transformation of character after her sin in order to emphasize her fall from purity and portray the significance of her disobedience. The excerpt from Paradise Lost begins with the most evident description of Eve’s

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    The Great Gatsby: The Lost Generation through the Eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald When the First World War reached its end on the 11th of November, 1918, it left behind a legacy of innovating warfare. However, this was not the war’s only effect because besides eliminating millions of lives, the First World War also revealed the true nature of war by demonstrating to the world how devastating war could really be; which in turn gave birth to the Lost Generation. First coined by an American writer named

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    Ezgi Yavuzalp 20112001768 EL 482 – Final Paper HIERARCHY IN PARADISE LOST BY MILTON In engaging himself to ‘justify the ways of God to men’ Milton has implicitly accepted the humanist goal of justifying man’s ways to men. The action he presents, if it is to be worthy of his ‘great argument’ must answer in reasonable ways all the certainties which reasonable Christians have named or felt in the story of the first human crisis. (Stein 87) As Arnold Stein expresses in the lines above, Milton aims to

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    intellectual hegemony of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. Intellectuals of this era began to think on mankind, looking for answers outside of the Religious constraints. Written during this context of political and religious upheaval, Paradise Lost, an

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