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kage
01-30-2008, 03:19 AM
I am just wondering what you guys have to say about the allegorical content of Paradise Lost. I have some references, Sin and Death being probably the most obvious, but I would like to hear what you guys think.

Also, I have heard conflicting views about the idea that it is an allegory of his own personal experience with the rise and fall of Cromwell and the English Commonwealth. Personally I think that it definitely could be, but what are your thoughts?