Lecture 6 | Hearing the War in Heaven: Sound and Sense (Book 6) | Paradise Lost in Slow Motion

[@mlamferreira]

The battle narration reminded me so much of Tolkien's writing

[@geoffreycanie4609]

I found a short poem of Milton's called "On the Inventor of Gunpowder" - and in it Milton compares the creation of gunpowder to stealing a power of force from Jove's thunderbolt. So when the Devils create gunpowder in book VI, what they might be creating is a blasphemous distortion of God's own power. Just a thought.

[@closereadingpoetry]

Love that connection!

[@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023]

I need to read me some Pope

[@closereadingpoetry]

heck yeah