Milton Blindness
Christopher wright 12 11 2019 5 08 00 am at 15 years old i was the only pupil in the class to learn this poem which impressed my english teacher i am 72 now and have always being able to recite the 1st 4 lines and the end line.
Milton blindness. On his blindness in on his blindness poet milton explores his experiences with blindness and non secular faith. Blindness prevents him from the usage of his poetic expertise by means of writing something high quality to glorify god. His service to the govt required that he extensively read and write.
In the last years of. He has a keen choice to serve god with the aid of the use of his poetic skills. This caused him to lose his sight.
The poem takes the shape of a petrarchan sonnet these traditionally specialize in love and romance but milton subverts. The sonnet 19 when i consider how my life is spent and sonnet 23 methought i saw my late espoused saint express milton s solitude and extreme sadness. Pritt linda 4 29 2020 11 23 00 am 386 butterfield pl.
Milton went blind working for the english republic. Give a reasoned answer. The oxford book of english verse.
On the basis of clues in milton s writings several possible diagnoses have been advanced to explain his loss of vision. Would you agree that milton reflects on blindness in sonnets 19 23. Caitlin owl eyes staff milton s sonnet concerns the universal desire to discover and develop one s talents.
Herein the evidence for and against each theory is presented. The sonnet is in the petrarchan form with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the miltonic conception of the form with a greater usage of enjambment. John milton 1608 1674 has often been regarded as the greatest poet of his time yet he did not compose his most famous work paradise lost until after he had become blind in both eyes.
Not to be able to bear blindness that is miserable john milton even when john milton was a young boy he enjoyed staying up late into all hours of the night to read books by candlelight alone. Milton s mindset of doubt passes off in a moment. Milton fears that his blindness will prevent him from doing god s work.
Blindness couldn t stop john milton to be blind is not to be miserable. Milton s paradise lost is a rich work and the best example of an epic. Since this poem is called on his blindness and we know that milton went blind in 1652 light can be read throughout the poem as a conceit for sight.
