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    Age 43 lost his sight.

    Poet is Written in 1655


    -an English poet and intellectual
    Both speaker and the poet are the same person
    Famous English Literature Sonnet 19

    On His Blindness John Milton – a religious poet

    1. This expresses the poet’s sadness of his loss of eye-sight. He feels self-pity and, over thinking of his
    situation.
    2. Milton’s feelings of helplessness in his mid-life and alone in his dark world of his complete blindness.
    3. It is like death for him to hide his talent of writing poetry that God has given him.
    4. This intensifies Milton’s talent being useless within and expresses his unhappiness of his situation, that
    the best part of his life would go to waste without having any work of importance.
    5. He is ready to serve God with his gift of talent and feels sad because God has made him blind.
    6. On this line, Milton expresses his inner-self to God without reservation but feels unable to do so due to
    his blindness, and grumbles against God thus, raises the question of the justness of God’s ways to man in
    relation to his own loss of sight.
    7. It shows how he fears that God will rebuke or disapprove him for not using his gift but very sad on the
    loss of his eye-sight.
    8. It’s all about, Milton’s foolishly asks himself whether God demands work from him, although the God
    have made him blind. But then poet’s inner faith consoles him and stop this murmur.
    9. Milton realizes that God is the master of this universe and doesn’t need anyone’s work or the return of
    gifts that we should be content with our lot in life and to stand readiness to serve God without any complaint
    or protest.
    10. God does not need either man’s work or the return of his gifts. What God needs is our faith and trust in
    him.
    11. On this line, the poet expresses about those who bear the duties given by God only want to complete
    faith in him, and those who patiently serve God and wait for his order, are also his true servant.
    12. God is like a great king. Thousands of angels are at his service, and rush over without delay to follow
    his command.
    13. God’s angels and servants rush over land and ocean or cross around the world without rest, in order to
    carry out his commands. This reminds us to be a God servant and that God must come first in everything
    we have to do.
    14. At the end, Milton’s realizes that God is best served not through worldly attainments but through sincere
    devotion, patience and complete submission to the will of God.

    The poet himself, blinding him at an early age and describing it as half his life. The whole world is dark, and
    dark because of blindness. The gift of being a creative writer and poet given to him by God is no longer
    useful to him. God-given gifts and abilities will remain with him until his death, but he will not be able to use
    them.
    As God blinded him, he wanted to be more obedient and serve God with his poetic power. He tended to
    praise God and write poetry, giving him a true explanation of what he wrote. He wants to do this so that
    God not rob him after his death.
    He wants to kindly ask God how he can ask an ordinary person to do the same job as him, despite being
    completely blind. In response to the poet’s heartfelt feelings, God does not want anything from man so his
    conscience helps him and tells him to be patient. The kingdom of God is very rich. And glorious. Thousands
    of angels are ready to act according to God’s command. They carry-out God’s will on land and in the sea
    without rest. The mortals on earth cannot serve God at that speed, so they must wait silently for God’s
    mercy. At the end Milton’s realizes that God is best served not through worldly attainments but through
    sincere devotion, patience and complete submission on the will of God.

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