By ìitî Satan is referring to love.  All God created was good (Gen 1:31).  God must have created Satan good.  Satan, like every other angel can chose to do good or evil.  However, Satan has a hard time separating what is right from what is wrong.  In his decision to strive for more power, he is choosing evil over good, and with that comes his misery.  All along Satan had the power to love and choose goodness over hatred and evil by means of his free will.  God gave Satan and man the temptation to choose between two extremes.  Satan once a loving and good angel chose to better himself and in that attempt is now choosing the higher extreme of evil.  Satan seems to be blaming God for this, for if he had not been given the choice to decide between these two extremes, he would still be living in the goodness of Heaven instead of suffering in the evilness of the Hell he is in right now.

Personification is used by giving love and hate human qualities.  Love and hate cannot ìdealî (4:70) anything out as it is implied in this part of the poem.  This may have been written in this particular way to express Satanís feelings about love and hate, and how he is blaming them for ìdealingî him his eternal misery.

 

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