
John Milton
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Holy Ghost
The poem begins like most epics, it begins with an invocation. A lot of people reading this would have known that story so i don't think he feels he has to hold the plot back. He asks various biblical types culminating in the holy spirit - some of you may know as the holy ghost. But they seem to have shrunked off, certainly. I'm a roman catholic. We don't use the holy ghost much. It really rminds me of when bat man sits on one of those sort of eagle like gargoyles that overlook gotham city and just stares at his manner, as it were. O, looking out at this chaotic universe, it really
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