![]() As for methodology, Bonn and Paris schools of semantics will be employed to carry out the investigation. Furthermore, the research seeks to show that the semantic divergences in the biblical and Miltonic narratives of the fall signal the essential differences between direct revelation (in the Quran), modified revelation (in the Bible) and poetic manipulation of revelation (in Paradise Lost). Therefore, this essay will explore how Judo-Christian tradition diverges from the divine narrative of the fall by paralleling this tradition to the Islamic one in the Quran as the ultimate and undistorted book of God. Compared to the fall narrative in the Bible and Paradise Lost, the Quran's narrative is not only exempt from any ideological or prejudicial burden, but also renders the event in egalitarian and unbiased terms. Although Milton's poem reproduces the biblical version of the fall by stylizing and modifying it for reasons pertaining to the socio-political context in which it was composed, still the work is informed with the biblical view of the fall. In other words, this narrative bears prejudicial aspects which are transferred to later historical phases, and crystallized particularly in poetic traditions and narratives like Paradise Lost. Thus, the biblical account of Adam and Eve's fall carries the ideological strains bearing on anthropocentric knowledge and culture. The story of man's fall and original sin, therefore, has been narrated from a human perspective, not a divine viewpoint. ![]() Since the Bible has been written by numerous writers and accumulated through centuries, it is obviously not the word of God, but man's reproduction of it. The story of the "fall" in Judo-Christian tradition, particularly the Bible, has functioned as a model for many narratives written by Christian poets such as John Milton. It focused on analyzing the unique stylistic features of the Invocation, levels of deviation, lexical choices and features through Milton's literary work, the King James Bible Online (1611) and the Corpus of the Quran for deeper understanding of this outstanding narration and the religious theme. This research tried to explore different levels of stylistic deviations, Milton's lexical choices from the Bible and the Quran, his religious and historical references. These reasons are the outstanding status of Paradise Lost in English literature, its complex narrative ingenuity, its grand style, its religious theme, its graphological, phonological, grammatical, lexical and semantic features, and the use of these features collectively to enhance the religious theme of this epic poem that is the relationship of man and God. The researcher chose the Invocation from Paradise Lost Book-1 for many reasons. The writer's selection of graphic words and other stylistic devices not only affect the reader's attitude but also convey his feelings toward the literary work. Poetic diction is very important to understand a writer's literary style, and this unique poetic diction separates it from prose.
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