John Milton Paradise Lost Diction
The Complex Style, Diction, Tone and Syntax of John Milton John Milton was inspired to write a great epic, much like the works by Homer, Dante and Virgil, and with this inspiration he created Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is an incredible piece of literature that tries to embody the idea of the epic poem. Milton puts a lot of effort (some even say too much effort) and significant thought into how he writes the story of The Fall of Satan, his infiltration of the Garden of Eden and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Milton produces this convoluted epic by utilizing style, diction, tone and syntax. Milton’s style is quite different from other writers, especially from the seventeenth- century. Milton writes his poem in a very complicated style that