2nd Take Home Examination

Here is the second Milton Take Home Examination, due in class on Thursday, May 2nd.

The story of the earth’s creation in “Genesis” is useful to read when reading books 7-8 of Paradise Lost. Google “genesis 1-3” and read the biblical version. It won’t take long. When you do, note the break in the story telling: the story is told twice. See the break displayed here.

PL Book VI, 386-97

PL Bk 6 386-97

News flash

The rule for formatting titles is, “if the work is a full-length work, italicize the title; it the work is a piece of a larger whole, place the title in quotation marks.” So even though Milton’s great epic is a poem, the title should be italicized, not placed in quotation marks.

Thus, Paradise Lost.