Lycidas

John Milton is one of the greatest poets in England, the publicist and an important figure in the Great English Revolution. "Lycidas" written in the middle of the 17th century, in 1637, in the genre of pastoral elegy, carries a beautiful and fascinating language in a poetic form. It is a small poem consisting of 197 lines. The author captures his friend and allegorically accuses God who unfairly punished a young man by prematurely ending his career, which was the complete opposite to the selfish and depraved activities of most English ministers and bishops and sharply contrasted against it. Milton also subtly describes the idealized rural life and opened the curtain on a patriotic passions lurking in the poet's soul; the fanaticism of the revolutionary Puritans is strangely intertwined here with melancholic Petrarch like poetry.