Epic similes in Paradise Lost book-1
John Milton has used so many epic similes in Paradise Lost bk-1. Epic simile helps create a proper image of the mentioned things in simile. So that the readers can easily understand or conceive about the thing.
Epic simile is a form of simile. Epic simile is a wide form of simile. In. Epic simile, the poet brings other stories, histories, and incidenta. It is also an epic feature. It enriciches the status of the epic.
The epic similes are following---
First simile deacribes the satan huge body that resembles with the larg shape of sea-beast Leviathan. It swims in the ocean stream. When it was sleeping in the Norwaygian sea, some sailors had mistaken it as an island. The poet says that the sailors anchored the skriff and ponder that they would stay there for the night and travell tomorrow. Thus they bounded their ships behind the wind
Second simile relates the Satan's huge shield. His huge shield has been compared to the moon's broad circumferance that hang on the shoulder of Satan. His shield is as huge as Tuscan artist means Galileo saw through his optic glass from the top of the Fesole or in Valdarno when he tried to discover lands , rivers and mounts on the surface of moon.
Third simile describes the speare of Satan that is like a tall pine tree or magic wand.
Fourth simile describes the condition of the fallen angels in the fiery sea of hell. Their condition has been compared to the condition of scattered dry autumn leaves in Vallambrosa or the see weed foating in the red Sea. When Israelites were threatened to leave Egypt, the left Egypt but from behind the army of Pharaoh invaded them . The israelites crossed the red sea but when the pharoh's army tried to cross, they drawn in the water . The Israelites saw from the safe shore that the chariot wheels and the army were floating in the sea. The condition of the fallen angels is as thick as the condition of cavalry of pharoh in the red Sea.
Fifth simile describes the flight of the fallen angels from the fiery gulf of hell towards the solid land. Here milton also drawn an picture of Moses. When moses moved his wand and summoned the troop of locusts, the swarm the locusts was so thick that it darkened the land of nile .flight of the fallen angels was as thick as the swarms of locusts.
Fourth simile describes the condition of the fallen angels in the fiery sea of hell. Their condition has been compared to the condition of scattered dry autumn leaves in Vallambrosa or the see weed foating in the red Sea. When Israelites were threatened to leave Egypt, the left Egypt but from behind the army of Pharaoh invaded them . The israelites crossed the red sea but when the pharoh's army tried to cross, they drawn in the water . The Israelites saw from the safe shore that the chariot wheels and the army were floating in the sea. The condition of the fallen angels is as thick as the condition of cavalry of pharoh in the red Sea.
Fifth simile describes the flight of the fallen angels from the fiery gulf of hell towards the solid land. Here milton also drawn an picture of Moses. When moses moved his wand and summoned the troop of locusts, the swarm the locusts was so thick that it darkened the land of nile .flight of the fallen angels was as thick as the swarms of locusts.
