Evolution Of Western Literature John Milton, Walt...

Evolution of Western Literature Starting from the Renaissance era, where man struggled with the power of God, the Romantic era, when self-expression flourished, and the twentieth century, which saw the onset of modernism, Western literature has saw a significant evolution. Three works, Paradise Lost, an epic poem that shows the struggle for man to grasp the concept of God, Leaves of Grass, a set of poems that celebrate the author’s sense of life through self-expression, and Metamorphosis, which illustrates the life of a man who let modern life demean him, illustrate through different styles how they reflect their times. Their authors, John Milton, Walt Whitman and Franz Kafka, were able to show how in these different stories through the content, their choice of language and style of writing, how they helped evolved Western Literature. In the three works of literature, their content is what plays an important part of their contribution to Western Literature. The content in a story is what the story consists of and the information that makes the story what it is. In Paradise Lost, Milton’s content consists of his own take on the biblical fall of man or the temptation from Adam and Eve. It was here that the struggle with God and his power was brought upon by Milton’s use of subject matter. In the first book, Milton describes someone who is most opposed to the power of God, Satan. Milton writes, â€Å"In utter darkness, and their portion set /As far remov d from God and light of