John Milton's "On His Blindness" Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of John Milton's "On His Blindness".

John Milton's "On His Blindness" Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of John Milton's "On His Blindness".
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John Milton's "On His Blindness"

Summary: This sonnet is among the chef-d'oeuvre in the history of English literature engendered by Milton, John in 1655. Born in London and Erudite at "Christ College", he was momentous poet, historian, scholar, pamphleteer, and a civil servant for Parliamentarians and Puritan commonwealth.
This poem enlightens us about Milton's blindness and his reason to acclimate his Cimmerian macrocosm.

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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