Tag Archives: Paradise Lost

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creatureby Michael DoyleThough literary snobs can find it less than delectableScience Fiction has grown up as quiet respectableSnobbery has ever been fashionable even at HalloweenStill science fiction’s limitations certainly don’t meanThat there is nothing really scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrogance, Books, Children of Frankenstein, Cliche, Conscience, Creature, Cross-Current, Darkness, Distortion, Electrical Reanimaion, Electricity, Forget, Frankenstein, Future Society, Galvani, Ghost Story, Giordano Bruno, Gothic Horroe, Halloween, Headspace, Horror, Humanity's Hubris, Imagination, Irrational, John Milton, Late, Law of Unintended Consequence, Lesson, Literary Feature, Literary Snobs, Literature, Magnetism, Mankind, Mary Shelley, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Monster, Morality, Mount Tambora, Movie, Natural Philosophy, Nemesis, Nightmare, Nuclear War, Outcast, Overcome, Paradise Lost, Plausibility, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Rational Fate, Rationalism, Recompense, Rejected, Resemblance, Right and Privilege, Robots, Scary Stories, Science, Science Fiction, Seeds We Sow, Special Effects, Speculation, Spree, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, True Science, Unhallowed Ground, Universe, Victor Frankenstein | Leave a comment

Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word | Leave a comment

God From Machine

Posted on March 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We live in interestingly troubled times. God From Machine by Michael Doyle In the spiraled stairs leading to the future Is a universal fate we must embrace and nurture Asking who is worthy to be given and receive The truth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Ambition, Answer, Blind, Born Again, Call, Choked Out, Cling, Coax, Connectivity, Cure, Deceive, Dismay, Dream, Drive, Elephant, Embrace, Eternity, Fall, False Hope, Fate, Future, Generation, Give, God, Gravity, Heal, Heed, Human, Humanity, Hurting, Infinite, Infinity, Last, Light, Lost, Machine, Master, Metaphor, Night, Nurture, Old, One Way Ticket, Pandora, Paradise Lost, Past, Photograph, Pi, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Post Modern, Pull, Pure, React, Recall, Receive, Regained, Reply, Risen, Spiral, Square Root, Step Back, Strong, Super Fluid, Times, Tragic, Treason, Trouble, Truth, Wealthy, Whore, Will, Worthy, Wrong | Leave a comment

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton

Posted on November 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

As previously discussed the epic blank verse poem Paradise Lost was a sort of mirror to Virgil’s Aeneid. It is considered by critics to be Milton’s major work. The poem relates the Biblical tale of the fall of man through the temptation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Aeneid, Blank Verse, Epic, Fall of Man, Garden of Eden, Havard Classics, John Milton, Paradise Lost | 2 Comments

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Regained – John Milton

Posted on November 8, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

John Milton died on November 8, 1674. Subsequent to writing Paradise Lost, English poet John Milton published Paradise Regained in 1671. Both works share similar theological themes and the use of blank verse. The latter work, however, deals primarily with the temptation … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blank Verse, Brief Epic, Chalfont St. Giles, Gospel of Luke, Harvard Classics, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Poetry, Thomas Ellwood | 1 Comment

The Accountability of Responsibility

Posted on September 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Today at Aloha Promises Forever, we will begin reading Paradise Lost by John Milton for those followers who are in Second Life. If you are interested in that work but are not in Second Life, take some heart. It will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountability, Living, Matthew, Paradise Lost, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Responsibility, Stewardship | Leave a comment

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton

Posted on August 20, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

John Milton was a 17th Century English poet. He is considered one of greatest of the English poets ever. His major work is said to be Paradise Lost. It is an epic poem written in blank verse and consists depending on … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Christian Morality Tale, Civil War, Epic, Fall of Man, Garden of Eden, Harvard Classics, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Temptation | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Paradise Lost

Science Fiction and Frankenstein’s Creature

Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight

God From Machine

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Regained – John Milton

The Accountability of Responsibility

Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton

Flickr Photos

Blogs I Follow

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Archives