Paradise Lost
Fallen from grace
Paradise Lost is John Milton's 1667 epic poem recounting Satan's rebellion against God, the war in Heaven, and the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve.
The phrase has become shorthand for any state of innocence or happiness that has been irretrievably lost: The old neighborhood is paradise lost—nothing remains of what we knew.
First biblical book
- EdenScriptural original paradise
- AdamFirst created man
- EveGenesis matriarch
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
forbidden fruit · God · Satan · redemption · covenant · Messiah · salvation · Lucifer
Judeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
- LuciferRebellious angel of Christian theology
- fallen angelsHeavenly beings expelled below
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
hubris · insurrection · disobedience · revolt · ambition · tyranny · monarchy · hierarchy
Urge toward the unwise
- sinViolation of divine law
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- shamePainful awareness of failure
banishment · transgression · corruption · downfall · consequence · mortality · punishment · deception
- seventeenth centuryThird period of second millennium
- English literatureWritten works from England
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- PuritanismProtestant reform movement
theodicy · literary criticism · epic poetry · invocation · archangel · iambic pentameter · enjambment · sublime
Exceptionally brave and noble
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- HomericOf grand, ancient verse
- IliadAncient Greek war epic
- OdysseyEpic of homecoming
Aeneid · Virgil · epic simile · catalogue · in medias res · Muse · warfare · cosmos
Forced permanent removal
- banishmentForced removal from place
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- alienationState of being isolated
- displacementRemoval from usual location
eastward · lamentation · nostalgia · homelessness · separation · cherubim · flaming sword · toil
Genesis
First biblical book
serpent · forbidden fruit · God · Satan · redemption · covenant · Messiah · salvation · Lucifer · Heaven
Satan
Judeo-Christian arch-enemy of God
- LuciferRebellious angel of Christian theology
- fallen angelsHeavenly beings expelled below
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
pride · hubris · insurrection · disobedience · revolt · ambition · tyranny · monarchy · hierarchy · Beelzebub
temptation
Urge toward the unwise
- sinViolation of divine law
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- guiltMoral self-reproach
shame · banishment · transgression · corruption · downfall · consequence · mortality · punishment · deception · seduction
John Milton
- seventeenth centuryThird period of second millennium
- English literatureWritten works from England
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
Puritanism · theodicy · literary criticism · epic poetry · invocation · archangel · iambic pentameter · enjambment · sublime · apostrophe
heroic
Exceptionally brave and noble
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- HomericOf grand, ancient verse
- IliadAncient Greek war epic
Odyssey · Aeneid · Virgil · epic simile · catalogue · in medias res · Muse · warfare · cosmos · mythological
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
- banishmentForced removal from place
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- alienationState of being isolated
displacement · eastward · lamentation · nostalgia · homelessness · separation · cherubim · flaming sword · toil · sorrow
- PoemsThe Raven, Ozymandias, Invictus, Beowulf, Annabel Lee
- 1600s WorksLeviathan, Don Quixote, King James Bible, Hamlet, Macbeth
- Christian epicsDivine Comedy, Pilgrim's Progress, Inferno, Paradiso, Andreas
- Sacred Allegoriesparable, allegory of the cave, Pilgrim's Progress, Divine Comedy, prodigal son
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
Paradise LostThe Divine Comedy
Tripartite afterlife epic
Pilgrim's Progress · restoration · homecoming · redemption · salvation
Paradise Lostobedience
Compliance with authority
grace · humility · victory · glorification · sanctification
lost, paradise, losing, losses, Paradise, paradises, paradisiacal, paradisical, paradisiac