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Is paradise lost the greatest English literature of all time?

Seems pretty 180. How come no one writes epic free verse po...
Useless big scourge upon the earth dopamine
  09/09/15
fyi it's blank verse, not free verse
Shaky Crotch
  09/09/15
because trying to do something the same but better than what...
Sexy black woman native
  09/09/15
Authors are a bunch of bitch asses in other words seems bout...
Useless big scourge upon the earth dopamine
  09/09/15
have you actually read it OP?
Pearly diverse skinny woman
  09/09/15
I remember reading it in high school and thinking "holy...
aromatic giraffe point
  09/09/15
doing such a thing well is insanely hard. it's a lot more d...
exciting garrison
  09/09/15
And btw Milton was blind and would just recite the lines eve...
slippery fuchsia site
  09/09/15
Yes
glittery sweet tailpipe
  06/29/18
Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the...
Hot purple station
  06/29/18
...
glittery sweet tailpipe
  06/29/18
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Talented Fluffy Feces
  04/23/21
Profoundly enjoyable reading experience
Clear gas station jew
  04/23/21
how come nobody composes memorable classical music anymore, ...
Bipolar associate
  04/23/21


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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:08 AM
Author: Useless big scourge upon the earth dopamine

Seems pretty 180. How come no one writes epic free verse poems these days? It's like we don't even try.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717494)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:43 AM
Author: Shaky Crotch

fyi it's blank verse, not free verse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717794)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:10 AM
Author: Sexy black woman native

because trying to do something the same but better than what was already recognized as insanely good is a lot harder than trying something completely new

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717505)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:11 AM
Author: Useless big scourge upon the earth dopamine

Authors are a bunch of bitch asses in other words seems bout right..

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717515)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:22 AM
Author: Pearly diverse skinny woman

have you actually read it OP?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717605)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:23 AM
Author: aromatic giraffe point

I remember reading it in high school and thinking "holy shit, this is the greatest thing ever written". How embarrassing for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717614)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 12:54 AM
Author: exciting garrison

doing such a thing well is insanely hard. it's a lot more difficult to thread a coherent "plot" through a poem that actually reads like a poem than it is to simply write it out in prose.

most people who attempt poetry at all fail quite badly at it, let alone attempting a novel-length poem with multiple chapters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#28717866)



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Date: September 9th, 2015 1:30 AM
Author: slippery fuchsia site

And btw Milton was blind and would just recite the lines every night before bed and his dotter would copy them down

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Date: June 29th, 2018 4:46 PM
Author: glittery sweet tailpipe

Yes

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Date: June 29th, 2018 4:48 PM
Author: Hot purple station

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat

That we must change for Heav’n, this mournful gloom

For that celestial light? Be it so, since he

Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid

What shall be right: fardest from him is best

Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream

Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields

Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell

Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings

A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.

The mind is its own place, and in it self

Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less then he

Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.

But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,

Th’ associates and copartners of our loss

Lye thus astonisht on th’ oblivious Pool,

And call them not to share with us their part

In this unhappy Mansion, or once more

With rallied Arms to try what may be yet

Regaind in Heav’n, or what more lost in Hell?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#36336846)



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Date: June 29th, 2018 5:07 PM
Author: glittery sweet tailpipe



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 4:31 AM
Author: Talented Fluffy Feces



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 2:28 AM
Author: Clear gas station jew

Profoundly enjoyable reading experience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#42334576)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 4:30 AM
Author: Bipolar associate

how come nobody composes memorable classical music anymore, either?

cause the moving picture with sound decimated all prior art forms. it was like putting mike tyson in a ring with a five year old, just total pummeling into the canvas till there was just a red ink blot left...

what else could be the reason?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2984706&forum_id=2#42334703)