September
17
/ 2019
Has an undergraduate student discovered a secret message in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost? Miranda Phaal, an undergraduate from Tufts University in Massachusetts, discovered what is being celebrated as a distinctive literary pattern, a hidden message, spelled out by the first letters in each line of a poem in Book 6 of Paradise Lost. Phaal’s research essay was published in the Milton Quarterly, in which the encoded message is said to read “FFAALL” and “FALL”. These letters are thought by the student to represent a triple-application of the word "fall," which in turn reflects Milton's poem's description of the Biblical fall of Satan and the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Do Adam And Eve
