From Paradise Lost by John Milton Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire . . .

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This excerpt from the poem recounts the feathers of the fallen angels after the rebellion in paradise, the ruse of Satan to make Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and the subsequent Fall of man. After an invocation to Musa, the poet briefly describes the rebellion of the angels led by Lucifer, who, failing, cost them paradise. Awakening in hell after nine days of confusion, they deliberate on what to do, and Lucifer, henceforth called Satan, makes known a new world and a new creature - man - that would be created by God

From Paradise Lost by John Milton Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire . . . What does the speaker describe in this passage?

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From Paradise Lost by John Milton Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire . . .

What does the speaker describe in this passage?