Veeky Forums help me out.
I've been struggling through the first book of the poem for nearly two hours. I find it insufferably difficult. the syntax is all over the place, sometimes it's like figuring out a puzzle. I've spent 15 minutes wrestling with one fucking sentence and still can't make sense of it.
Any advice for getting through this? Am I dumb or is Milton's writing this enigmatic for others too?
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>Not for you OP
I am on my journey to Paradise lost right now and am about to finsih Aeneid.
Is it necessary to read Ovid's Metamorphoses before reading Divine Comedy or can I also jsut read that later.
>Paradife Loft
I knew the faggot was blind but I didn't know he had a lisp too.
keep trying. i read that shit as a moderately bright but autistic 24yo. if i could do it, so can you.
It is a "long s" not an "f."
Post the sentence you can't understand.
I notice that if I spend a long amount of time working through the syntax of a sentence, it will eventually make sense somehow but gosh, some of these sentences really slow me down.
Why is F an S in -18th century Engrish?
>long s
>ſukſeſ
You just need to get used to the pentameter and archaic diction. The idea is by the time you read Milton you should be familiar with atleast KJV prose and Shakespeare's blank verse. It's also good to read Homer because of all the Greek allusions. Then you can really appreciate it for what it is.
Ovid's Metamorphoses is just a record of Greco-Roman myth, I'd keep it lying around and occasionally read a story or two from it. I'm pretty sure that's where Dante picked up most of his knowledge of Greek myth