1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Goshia [24]
3 years ago
10

Summary of on his blindness by john milton

English
1 answer:
Andreas93 [3]3 years ago
7 0

Explanation:

Poem Summary

Many people are familiar with the story of Ludwig Van Beethoven. This man, in spite of being deaf, managed to become a world-renowned composer. What a terrible fate: to have the sense most integral to your art be taken away from you. Similar is the story of John Milton, an English poet, who, by 1655 at age 48, was blind. His ability to write was threatened and, as a result, his relationship with God became complicated.

In On His Blindness, Milton is struggling to understand what God expects of him now that he is losing his sight. He's upset about wasting 'that one Talent which is death to hide' (line 3), which is a biblical reference to the parable of the talents (Matthew 25: 14-30), in which two people invest their talents (in the story, 'talents' are money), while another just hides his talent in a hole and is punished. Milton feels that God expects him to use his talent for writing poetry in a way that honors Him.

Milton is frustrated that his lack of sight is preventing him from serving God when he wants to so badly:

...Though my Soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

My true account... (lines 4-6)

Milton's 'true account' refers to his religious poetry. Much of his poetry was concerned with God's relationship to mankind and he considered it a serious duty to write poetry that simultaneously made God's mysterious ways more clear to people and honored God with its craft.

At line 7, Milton wonders if God still expects him to keep writing without his sight, then decides that God is more forgiving than he was giving him credit for, Surely, knowing of his condition and strong desire to please Him, God wouldn't expect anything that he couldn't possibly accomplish, nor would he punish him.

The last half of the poem has a calmer tone. It's almost like Milton realizes that while he's writing that people can serve God in many different ways. It's the intent and the grace with which one deals with hardship that counts

You might be interested in
If you knew you were going to be leaving your home and going into hiding, what 10 items would you fit in your backpack? Food and
forsale [732]

Answer:

wood, water, dishes, blanket(s), soap, hairbrush, medicine, basket, weapon

Explanation:

These are important to survive and stay alive while being clean and heathy.

7 0
3 years ago
Type the correct answer in the box. Spell all words correctly.
LenaWriter [7]
Yearly is your answer.
7 0
2 years ago
1.according to the call of the wild, as new lead dog, Buck improved the solidarity of the team. what does this mean?
Gemiola [76]

1) The team was more unified.

2) He dreamed of a prehistoric man.

3) Dave

4) The underlying meaning or message in a literary work.

5) cruelty to animals is wrong.

6) She wanted to bring all the comforts normally found on the sleeping car of a  train.

7)  The turning point of a story.

8) The time and place of a story.

9) They died by drowning in a freezing river.

10)  John Thornton.


Good Luck! Hope I helped:)

4 0
3 years ago
What is the allusion in the following line? Tell me what thy lordly name is on the nights plutonian shore?
WITCHER [35]

Allusion is to refer to something well known or famous so the alussion here would be lordly name. Alluding to lord of godliness.

5 0
3 years ago
What is the best way for the students to revise the essay?
aev [14]

If you don't have answer choices, I would say either peer editing or reading it aloud and listening for errors.

7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Which sentence from “Tattered, Torn, and Worn” illustrates why the old quilt is important to the family?
    10·2 answers
  • PLEASE HELP ASAP I WILL MARK THE FIRST 2 ANSWER THE BRAINLIEST
    14·1 answer
  • What does the setting do to the story?
    7·1 answer
  • Please identify what type of error the following sentence includes: After significant financial losses last quarter, constructio
    7·1 answer
  • Which phrase best describes the commentary in an informational text?
    11·2 answers
  • When a person lies more often...
    15·2 answers
  • How is immigration now in the us the same as immigration in the 1900s?
    8·1 answer
  • 2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the
    13·1 answer
  • Read this passage:
    6·1 answer
  • Describe an irrational fear that someone might have, and what they can do to overcome that fear
    6·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!