Milton describes the ranks of Satan

Milton describes the ranks of Satan's army and his rousing speech to them, which describes a prophecy of man and a new world.


Paradise Lost introduces Milton's intention to write a great epic of lasting literary importance about the biblical story of the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise, and the consequences of eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. It also tells the reader, briefly, about the rebellion of some of the angels and their subsequent expulsion from heaven.