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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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The Sun Convinces God to Accept Adam and Eve's Repentance

Milton invokes a muse in book three that is going to give him the holy light by which he will be able to write this volume. Milton or the narrator who we take to be Milton is sort of a character in this poem. And it's certainly the experience of writing the poem is an experience that is shown in the poem happening.

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