Satan quotes Flashcards
“From pole to pole…
“From pole to pole, traversing each colure”
Imagery of Satan as a corrupting force that can be breathed in - corrupting from within
“Satan involved in rising mist”
Shared misery is preferable, Satan embraces misery and does not seek redemption: “Nor hope to be myself less…
“Nor hope to be myself less miserable / By what I seek, but others to make such / as I”
“for the time remained / Stupidly…
“for the time remained / Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed / Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge”
“For only in destroying…
“For only in destroying I find ease”
“Like a black mist…
“Like a black mist low creeping”
beauty of serpent: “Fold above fold…
“Fold above fold a surging maze, his head / Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With burnished neck of verdant gold…”
“… pleasing was his shape, /And lovely, never since of serpent kind /Lovelier”
metamorphosis to serpent as punishment: “hiss for hiss…
“hiss for hiss returned with forkèd tongue / To forkèd tongue”
- united by being debased; perpetual hiss contrasts Book IX silence of beasts
“to serpents all as accessories…
“to serpents all as accessories / To his bold riot”
- Satan’s lawlessness in disobeying God and tempting man;
“accessories” - the chain of corruption
