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  1. Sep 2018
    1. What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support

      A prayer to disperse the darkness caused due to ignorance and raise it to the place where there is light so that he may justly act as a link between the readers and God, asserting the ways of God - just like the bad angels were driven out of heaven, the sin of the man will be delivered by the greater man mentioned earlier in the poem.

    2. Invoke thy aid

      An appeal to one of the nine goddesses in Greek mythology who was responsible for inspiration in arts and literature. Now, this is again unique to epic poetry as was a tradition in Greek Literature. Homer invokes the muses in both, the Illiad and the Odyssey.

    3. Mans First Disobedience,

      This occupies the epic formula position as in the epics of Virgil and Homer and talks about man's disobedience as a heroic deed.(Contrary to what the epic poems highlight - noble doings of noble men)