On His Blindness By John Milton

Naxhiely Flores Melissa Hernandez Per.5

 John

Milton was born on December 9, 1608, in London.  lived on Bread Street in Cheapside  parents had enough money to afford Milton a tutor for classical languages and later afforded to pay an entrance to St. Paul's School in 1620.  he got interested in the music because his father wrote music, which later led to Milton’s love for poetry.  admitted to Christ's College Cambridge but he got temporarily expelled after he go into a dispute with 2 tutors.  when he returned, he resumed his study’s and worked on Latin poems.  he died November 8 1674 in London, England

 The

genre of this poem is to learn how to be who you are without asking.

 The

form of the poem is a Petrarchan Sonnet a poem of 14 lines.

 The

language of the poem contribute to it’s meaning because you need to be who you are even if you have difficulties and problems that affect your life.

 The

poem is organized by 14 lines of pattern of rhyme.

 The

poem contributes to the rhyme meaning because at the end of each sentence words rhyme with one another.  Ex. wide, hide, chide, denied, need, speed, best, rest.  Rhyme Scheme: ABBA, ABBA, CDE, and CDE.

 The

tone of the poem is Darkness and Light.

 The

speaker speaks in this tone because he feels that God denies his eye sight.

 ex.

“When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide And that one talent which is death to hide.”

A

blind person that questions God on why he loses his sight.

 The

person we believe is the speaker is John Milton. He began to lose his sight in 1644, but went completely blind around 1650.

 The

context of the poem is in a dark world where nothing can be seen.

 The

theme of the poem is: accepting the love of god unconditionally even though you have a physical disability.  The theme of the poem is: that God will always love you no matter what happens to you in life.

 The

speaker is talking to God about how losing his sight of seeing has made him stop believing in God somehow.

 In

the poem the speaker is asking God why his light has been denied and how losing something important had made the speaker lose faith in religion.

 Our

initial response to Milton’s poem is that he speaks about a strong man, that has lost his vision, is learning how to do things for himself.  This poem would give someone with disabilities or anybody to do what they truly wish in life and nothing should stop them.