Significance of Jacob’s Poems

To Satan, Jacob's poems represent Jacob's best, and probably only, hope for putting his grief about the past in proper perspective; to Jacob, they represent a source of eternal frustration, given how unhappy he is with so much of his work. As the narrative concludes, though, he comes to accept and align with Satan's perspectives, starting to write again in the aftermath of the creativity-nourishing reappearance in his life of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.