The personal problem that Milton examined in his poem Lycidas is how to deal with the loss of loved ones.
He wrote in that poem about his best friend who died, so it is a sort of a manual on how to get over your grief as well. It is an ode to his best friend whom he lost and couldn't forget, so he decided to commemorate him in a poem and thus he will live forever through art.
Answer:
1. Since the 1700's, people have used balloons filled with gas lighter than air to float above the ground.
2. Inventors have been trying since as early as the 1800s to create a heavier-than-air machine that would fly.
3. Originally the machines were not meant to carry people.
4. Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to fly a powered airplane in sustained height.
5. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the flight lasted 12 seconds, and went 120 feet.
6. They succeeded, they had studies aerodynamics, the principles of the movement of air around objects.
7. From this beginning, the airplane industry was started.
8. Louis Bleriot, a Frenchman, was the first pilot to fly across the English Channel in 1909.
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