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    John Milton wrote the poem "On his Blindness" in 1652 after he went completely blind. In the poem, Milton meditates on losing his sight through an autobiographical sonnet. He structures the poem in the traditional Petrarchan form of ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. However, unlike typical Petrarchan poems about love, Milton's sonnet addresses his physical blindness but also contains spiritual implications.

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    John Milton wrote the poem "On his Blindness" in 1652 after he went completely blind. In the poem, Milton meditates on losing his sight through an autobiographical sonnet. He structures the poem in the traditional Petrarchan form of ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. However, unlike typical Petrarchan poems about love, Milton's sonnet addresses his physical blindness but also contains spiritual implications.

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    John Milton wrote the poem "On his Blindness" in 1652 after he went completely blind. In the poem, Milton meditates on losing his sight through an autobiographical sonnet. He structures the poem in the traditional Petrarchan form of ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. However, unlike typical Petrarchan poems about love, Milton's sonnet addresses his physical blindness but also contains spiritual implications.

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    On His Blindness

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    John Milton wrote the poem "On his Blindness" in 1652 after he went completely blind. In the poem, Milton meditates on losing his sight through an autobiographical sonnet. He structures the poem in the traditional Petrarchan form of ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. However, unlike typical Petrarchan poems about love, Milton's sonnet addresses his physical blindness but also contains spiritual implications.

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    The Reason why do John Milton Wrote

    On his blindness

    In February of 1652, the English poet John Milton went completely blind.
    Many great artists have suffered blindness, but the twist in Milton's case is that he
    went blind before he wrote his best works, including the immortal epic
    poem Paradise Lost. Milton had written a few great poems before 1652, such as
    the elegy "Lycidas." But he was not a famous poet by this point. Literally, Milton
    wrote this poem On his Blindness before he went completely blind. I think that
    he felt it someday that he would going to be completely blind someday
    On his blindness is an autobiographical sonnet in which john Milton
    meditates on his own loss of sight. It is said to be written on 1964, the time in
    which the poet suffered complete blindness
    The poem is considered to be sonnet. This sonnet is written in the
    Petrarchan rhyme scheme associated with the fourteenth-century Italian poet
    Francesco Petrarca. Its rhyming scheme is ABBA, ABBA, CDE and CDE.
    In structure, the sonnet is a typical Petrarchan sonnet. Nevertheless, its
    subject matter departs from that of Petrarchan poems. While Petrarca was
    famous for writing poems about love, Milton deals with very practical and physical
    problem but still contain many spiritual implications.

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