Paradise Lost Author: [British] John Milton Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

◎ Paradise Lost: One of the three great poems in the West, along with Homer's Iliad and The Divine Comedy.

◎ Reveals the original sin and fall of man with epic momentum

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Paradise Lost reveals the original sin and fall of man with epic momentum. Satan, the rebellious god in the poem, was thrown into hell for resisting God's authority, but he never gave in and went to the Garden of Eden for revenge. Adam and Eve were seduced by the snake possessed by Satan and ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge that God had forbidden them to eat. In the end, Satan and his accomplices were condemned and turned into snakes, and Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. The poem embodies the poet's noble spirit of pursuing freedom, and is deeply marked by the poet's experience and understanding of major social, historical and political events in Britain in the 1650s and 1660s, thus showing great creativity and transcendence, and becoming an immortal work in the history of world literature and thought.