Anyone care to explain this Milton quote to me?

Question

"For who would lose. Though full of pain. This intellectual being. Those thoughts that wander through eternity. To parish rather, swallowed up and lost. In the wide womb of uncreated night."-John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Answer 1

a person can search all their life for the meaning of life to die never knowing the answer   the title paradise lost

Answer 2

John Milton is a very great poet , probably only next to Shakespeare . However, Shakespeare wrote those magnificence from the level of vital - life element ; whereas Milton mixes with it the elment of higher mind and intellect. Poetry's true domain is the heart, life and soul. When anything is expressed from these levels, the poetry is truly in its elements. When we involve mind, even mixing with heart, we are always walking as though slightly on stilts.

the line,' Those thoughts that wander through eternity.' is truly a line in the English language, par excellence, far above our normal existence and ordinary life, it is over-head  poetry.

The night is personified, observe the fantastic imagery, and the alliteration of the wide womb; to imagine an uncreated night and its womb.

Milton constantly speaks of an intellectual being, he identifies his soul with that being.

The catharsis brought about by this is very great indeed in our being. All the lines are at avery high pitch and tempo, the nothingness which is going to swallow us .

Milton when he wrote his Paradise Lost , he was totally blind, and thus he was able to dictate to his daughter, those mostrous vastnesses that lie in the deep abysses of our lower end. According to me these lines are truly great and should be cherished at all times.

Answer 3

I venture that it relates to the question of the survival of the ideas, truths and beauty that survive, or may not, the painful non survival of the human flesh in which the metaphysical engine of such ideas seem to originate. Do these die too? Is there some place in the remaining dark night after death  to which such ideas and truths resort to that may render them vacuous unintelligible?