Even at the opening of the soliloquy, Satan expresses his anguish and suffering as he gazes upon the bright sun and speaks to it saying, “O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere” (IV.37-9). His power holds a place above the sun physically
Even at the opening of the soliloquy, Satan expresses his anguish and suffering as he gazes upon the bright sun and speaks to it saying, “O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere” (IV.37-9). His power holds a place above the sun physically