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    The document is a literature review written by a student named Shan Michelle F. Villamina for her World Literature course. The review summarizes and analyzes the poem "On his Blindness" by John Milton. It discusses that Milton wrote the poem after going completely blind, using it to meditate on losing his sight and ask God for guidance. While traditionally about love, Milton subverts the Petrarchan sonnet form to explore his relationship with God. The review analyzes themes of guilt, spiritual light, and God's fairness portrayed in the poem through Milton's use of figurative language and imagery.

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    The document is a literature review written by a student named Shan Michelle F. Villamina for her World Literature course. The review summarizes and analyzes the poem "On his Blindness" by John Milton. It discusses that Milton wrote the poem after going completely blind, using it to meditate on losing his sight and ask God for guidance. While traditionally about love, Milton subverts the Petrarchan sonnet form to explore his relationship with God. The review analyzes themes of guilt, spiritual light, and God's fairness portrayed in the poem through Milton's use of figurative language and imagery.

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    City of Malabon University

    College of Teacher Education


    Masterpiece of World Literature – LIT102

    Name: Villamina, Shan Michelle F. Date: March 8,2019

    Course/Year/Major: BSE-3c Social Studies Professor: Mr. Ralph Kenneth Estrella

    LITERATURE REVIEW

    "On his Blindness"

    John Milton was an English poet, polemician, man of letters, and civil servant for the
    common wealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. His
    service to the government often requires him to stay up late reading and writing. Milton's
    eyesight had been steadily declining for years, most likely the result of untreated glaucoma and
    by February 1652 he had gone been completely blind. The poem "On his Blindness" is an
    autobiographical sonnet in which the author, John Milton meditates on his own loss of sight.
    Petrarchan sonnet traditionally focus on love and romance but Milton subverted this in order to
    explore his relationship to God.

    The speaker of the poem feels he's lost his purpose, that he cannot work anymore
    and he ask God for guidance as to what he should do. The voice of his poem is a man who is
    see thing with frustration with his incapability of serving his God profitability. The voice of the
    poem help us picture out a world that is dark and wide then at the end, it help us image God
    with His angels doing his bidding and human at his side singing praise for Him. But at the end of
    the poem, he gets the response of he's been looking for, that God is happiest when people are
    obedient and do as best as they can making the voice of the poem turns hopeful.

    The Author uses figurative languages to express his grievance and discontent. In line
    3 to 4 the talent is "death to God". Milton uses Allegory in comparing his situation with the event
    in the parable of Talents with him being the third servant who buried his money and God as the
    lord. He also uses personification in line 8-10 to express the importance of words and values.
    He personifies "Patience" as if patience where a man who replies for him. Patience is his
    reasoning for accepting the fact that he is blind. He also uses Metaphor and Alliteration in lines
    2, 3, and 4.

    For the theme of the poem, The writer expresses his Guilt and Blame as the author
    feel guilty that he could not serve his purpose because of his blindness. The theme of Spiritual
    light also express in the poem. "Light" is the most focused subject in the poem. Not only in his
    eyesight that is important to him but also his spiritual light. The theme I most like is the Fairness
    of God, telling us that we always remain worthy in the sight of God.

    I highly recommend this poem. This is a piece that should be read by anyone because
    of the Hope that it can be passed to a person upon reading it. Especially now a days that many
    people undergone anxiety and depression. Reading a poem like this one make a person feel
    worthy when they felt they are not. And it reminds us to trust God with his plan.
    On his Blindness
    by John Milton

    When I consider how my light is spent


    Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
    And that one talent which is death to hide
    Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
    To serve therewith my Maker, and present
    My true account, lest he returning chide;
    "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
    I fondly ask. But Patience to prevent
    That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
    Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
    Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
    Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
    And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
    They also serve who only stand and wait."

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