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Greek muses - elevated language not used before
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That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount
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What milton is going to do in the poem
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I may assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to men
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A name for satan
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The infernal serpant
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A paradox of which satan wanted to do
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Equalled the most high
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Satan as a fallen angel what God did to him
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Him the almighty power hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
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Satan in real pain for what he had lost suffering
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The thought of both lost happiness and lasting pain torments him
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Oxymoron about light
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No light but darkness visable
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Torture
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But torture without end
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God's power
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And till then who knew the force of those dire arms?
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Inner pain of satan
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Though in pain, vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair
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Weakness - innocence by satan
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To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering
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Satan's intentions - revenge
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But ever to do ill our sole delight
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Reinforcement - balance from opposites
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope, if not what resolution from despair
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Epic similie - size of satan
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Extended long and large lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge as whom the fables name of monstrous size
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Size of satan
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His mighty stature
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