Paradise Lost 英国文学史 paraphrase.doc

6. Paradise Lost: A Selection from Book 1 OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,1 With loss of Eden, till one greater Man2 Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 ] Tell me about man’s first sin, when he tasted the forbidden fruit, caused all our sorrow and troubles, and lost the paradise until Jesus came and saved us and regain the happy paradise. Sing Heavnly Muse3,that on the secret top Of Oreb4, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed5, In the Beginning6 how the Heavns and Earth Rose out of Chaos7: Or if Sion8 Hill [ 10 ] The Muse on the heaven inspired Moses the shepherd and the people of Israel in his teachings about how the universe is created out of chaos in the beginning. Delight thee more, and Siloas Brook that flowd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,1 That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th Aonian Mount2, while it pursues [ 15 ] Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime3. Or if Sion Hill makes you happier and the brook of Siola flows fast beside the temple of God, I will summon your help to my brave epic from there. The song would fly high above the Aonian Mount while it describes sth that never be attempted in other poems. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowst; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread [ 20 ] Dove-like4 satst brooding on the vast Abyss5 Muse, you prefer the mind of integrity and purity rather than any temple and chiefly instruct me because you always know everything from the very beginning of this world, just like the doves spreading out powerful wings and brooding on the chaos and made the vast Abyss. And madst it pregnant6: What in me is dark Illumin, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providenc