Paradise Lost 10

"What better can we do than to the place repairing where He judged us prostrate fall before him revernet and there confess humbly our faults and pardon beg, with tears watering the ground and with our sighs the air frquenting, sent from hearts contrite to sign of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek? Undoubtedly He will relent and turn from His displeasure, in whose look serene when angry most he seemed and most severe What else but favor, grace and mercy shown?" (1086-1096) So far, this is one of my favorite passage in the book. This is a beautiful response to the sorrow that Adam and Eve both have and their want for death and outlines how they can respond to it. This is the contrast to Satan, again, and what Milton seems to have as the didactic purpose of the book. These passages are indeed an important element of the epic.