Uhh is this the story about the Sailor who shot down an albatross at sea. Now he has to wear it around his neck and travel around and tell people his story. I think this is it cause we read it in English class.
i've never read it but it's mentioned many times by the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Frankenstein is an awesome book, if you haven't read that yet. I actually planned on picking up Paradise Lost after reading Frankenstein, thanks for reminding me!
here's a synopsis from penguinclassics.com if you didn't really know what it was about... In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution—Paradise Lost has an apparent ambivalence towards authority which has led to intense debate about whether it manages to "justify the ways of God to men", or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
i've read it. It's hard. Keep a dictionary handy and read it SLOW. The story and the language is amazing. The style definitely turns off most people, but its really rewarding to finish the book.
Thanks guys...yeh i think it will be hard but im planning to do lit. and creative writing at uni...so i better get used to the ol' reading! Roly.xxx
yeh i think i will very muchly!!!yay and coz its creative writing it means i get to develop my own writing more closely and yaya.....!!!xxx
