It is interesting the way Milton describes Eve´s falling for Adam. "Nothing compares to you", Eve seems to be saying to Adam in Paradise Lost, book IV. The sun is pleasant, the morning birds are charming, the grass, the trees, the fruits, the rivers, the stars...all is delightful and beautiful. However, spending time with Adam seems to be the most precious moment of the day for Eve. It seems to me that Milton´s Eve is in love, at least in Book IV. The comparisons and images Milton use are very powerful and only related to nature and the Paradise they lived in, obviously, because it was Adam and Eve´s world. Paradise Lost (Book IV: 641- 656)
by John Milton (1608-1678)
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, [ 641 ]
With charm of earliest Birds; pleasant the Sun
When first on this delightful Land he spreads
His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flour,
Glistring with dew; fragrant the fertil earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful Eevning milde, then silent Night
With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon,
And these the Gemms of Heav'n, her starrie train:
But neither breath of Morn when she ascends [ 650 ]
With charm of earliest Birds, nor rising Sun
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, floure,
Glistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
Nor grateful Eevning mild, nor silent Night
With this her solemn Bird, nor walk by Moon,
Or glittering Starr-light without thee is sweet [ 656 ]
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