Man and Nature After the Fall
No more of talk where God or Angel Guest With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd To sit indulgent and with him partake Rural repast permitting him the while Venial discourse unblam'd: I now must change Those Notes to Tragic; foul distrust and breach Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt, And disobedience: on the part of Heav'n Now alienated, distance and distaste... (PL. IX, 1-9) In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and nature can best be discussed when we look at Milton's pre-fall descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. Believing that fallen humans could never fully understand what life was like in Eden and the relationships purely innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of Paradise and Adam and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan: Any, but God alone, to value right The good before him, but perverts best things To worse abuse, or to thir meanest use. Beneath him with new wonder now he views To all delight of human sense expos'd In narrow room Nature's whole wealth, yea more, A Heaven on Earth: for blissful Parad
as if the pair had pruned it. Eve's body seems to be supported by the garden, but her hair is described as wild, unadorned and Sky low'r'd, and muttering Thunder, some sad drops and Eve are together, the Garden thrives, almost to the point of danger, but this danger can be under control so long as they driven out of Eden, from the dust from which he was made, Adam, upon his death, is to return his origins. Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe,
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