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Eve Speaks Paradise Lost Over the course of time, there have been many interpretations of man's fall from grace, as told by the Bible. Among the literary interpretations are those of John Milton's Paradise Lost and the American poet Louis Untermeyer's "Eve Speaks." John Milton's epic poem deals with the entire story of man's fall from grace, including background for Satan's motives.
Louis Untermeyer's "Eve Speaks" was written about Eve's thoughts, many years after she …
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…same biblical story may be a result of the large time
span between the stories. Milton's Paradise Lost was written in a more religious time in
which the fall of man would seem to be a great sin. During Louis Untermeyer's time,
worldly knowledge was seen as more important than the more spiritual ideas of the past.
Despite their differences, both poems present the biblical story through a more human point
of view
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