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John Milton's "On His Blindness"
Poet unfolds his poesy giving it a melancholic touch of despondency and mental anguish. When poet learns that he has to spend his life bereaved by the visual acuity, he called it his spiritual and intellectual quietus. His desire was to serve his God but he was impotent. He was anxious that God would castigate him for not utilizing his talent.
This despondent feeling was soon set at rest by forbearance. This fortitude soothed him and made him realize that God, unlike man, neither wants man's arduous toil nor an account of gift bestowed by him to human beings. What pleases God most is quiet humble abdication to his will. Those who relinquish to their best, those who never sough against God's justice and those who patiently endure all the predicaments are good...
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