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Shvoong Home>Books>Poetry>Review on “Satan’S Speech” by John Milton Review

Review on “Satan’S Speech” by John Milton

Book Review   by:akso6o175     Original Author: Andy Kester Sawian
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‘Satan’s Speech’ is taken from ‘Paradise Lost’, Book-1, Page-11, and lines 157-191. One can discover to oneself that to be weak is miserable. In the process of doing and suffering, one thing that is certain is that the good that we ought to be doing will never be our priority task. To do something ill and evil will always be to our sole delight that contradicts the Imperious; arrogant and domineering; Will of God whom we resist. If it is the utmost providence; the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power: God or nature as providing such care: timely preparation for future eventualities; of God to seek and bring forth the good out of our evil, then man’s selfish desire and labour must be to pervert that end. Out of Good, man still try to find means of evil, which often times may succeed as much as to grieve God. The narrator feels that if he is not deceived (in the text the word ‘fail’ carries an uncommon meaning) then he will not disturb God’s inmost counsels from their destined aim. Yet now God the angry Victor has called back his ministers of vengeance and pursuit to the gates of Heaven.
In His Wrath, God sent forth the fiery sulphorous hail shot after them; His mortal creations; in a storm which was overblown and had laid the fiery surge that from the precipice of Heaven received them falling. The wing of thunder with red lightning and impetuous rage had perhaps spent His shafts, and ceases now to bellow through the vast and boundless deep ocean. All this is a reference of God’s wrath over the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah whom He burnt to ashes by sending the fire of sulphur and brimstone from Heaven for the sins of mankind, as narrated in the Book of Genesis in The Old Testament of The Bible.
Let not the mortal slip the occasion of scorn or satiate; satiated or satisfied; fury that yields itself from the foe. One can see beyond the dreary plain, forlorn and wild, the seat of desolation void of light. Save what the glimmering of these livid flames that are cast pale and dreadful. Thither let them tend off from the tossing of these fiery waves and there rest if any rest can harbor there. Reassembling their afflicted powers; armies and military might; consult how they may henceforth offend their enemies most. The manner of repair their own loss and to overcome this dire calamity. The kinds of reinforcement that may gain from the hope and if they cannot gather any comfort from hope, let them consult what resolution they may pluck from despair.

Published: September 24, 2010   
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