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Most poems written in British Literature evolved many villains and heroes.

In many poems villains terrorize people and/or harm a community. A hero usually

comes along and saves the day. A new concept of how poems are being looked at is

called the Divine. The Divine is the involvement of god or a supernatural deity in the

human world. In the poem Hero and Leander, it is about two young overs who are

both passionately in love. First, you have the lovely virgin Hero who has decided to

give her service to the Goddess of Venus. The handsome Leander is describe to be so

attractive that even men found him beautiful. In the poem Paradise Lost, it is about

the on going battle between God and Satan. Satan is trying to destroy God’s new

world with lies and deceit because of his jealousy. In both stories the connection

begins with the power of god. In both poems they both have similar and different

ways that the divine is shown through god. The God or God’s plays an active role

that gives man the privilege of free will to express their divine.

In the poem Hero and Leander, one-way the divine is shown is shown by

the love by the two companions. Hero and Leander are madly in love. The first time they

met it was love a first sight (they met at the yearly festival of Adonis). Leander wants to

marry Hero, but she tells him that her parents would never let her marry a guy from a

foreign city (he is from Abydos) “On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood, In view and

opposit two cities stood Seaborders….”(1-4). Even though people are against them being

together they still fight for each other’s love “Love is not ful pittie (as men say) but

deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray” (287-288). Leander continually pressu...

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...ads to alarm, Though inaccessible, His fatal throne, Which if not victory is

yet revenge (2.101-105). Due to Satan’s revenge against god it lead Adam and Eve to be

banished from paradise.

In conclusion, numerous poems have different types of gods or supernatural

things that can involve in the human world. With Hero and Leander you see that Neptune

involves by almost kidnapping and killing Leander for revenge. You also she how love

is represented in the divine as well their love was so strong no matter what god’s got

involved they remain to try to fight to be together. With Paradise Lost, Satan so held up

on revenge that it caused Adam and Eve to be banished from “Paradise”. Adam loved

Eve so much that he was willing to sin against God as well. Both in Hero and Lander and

Paradise Lost the divine involvement can cause good and bad things to happen.

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