Why did John Milton become a poet?
While the limitation of authorial intention, or intentional fallacy as one might call it, in a work of literature, etc., is a difficult concept to pinpoint, being of the tactless, abstract, and intangible detentions of the mind, the intellectual and historical environment in which John Milton resided provides concrete certainty of his selection for the poetic vocation. Of English aristocratic birth, education, and religious disposition, Milton was a product of monarchical concept of divine right, whereby kings derive their power through the will of God. Concordantly, with the preceding era of the Renaissance and a greater emphasis on humanism and individuality, the resentment of many aristocratic nobles to their national ruler grew. Like Lucifer, to fly in the face of divine authority, Milton was among those whose concept of self-importance and ability disposed him to resist the divine order of kingship and attempt to over reach his position, to arise above his station through the prod
