by Amul

Created on: July 21, 2009

John Milton is known for his work "Paradise Lost" which is epic poem. He was an English poet. His poem "On his blindness" is a sonnet. John Milton became blind in 1651, but he continued writing with the help of others. He wrote this poem after losing his vision.

He begins the poem by estimating how he wasted his ability to see. In this poem he used word light for vision. He also used word light to represent the spirituality and he meant here that how he ignored his spiritual capacity. He further tells that he will spend his remaining half of the life in darkness. Now when he lost his vision, he found himself surrounded by the darkness only. Here he used the term dark world as his inability to understand the spiritual world and knowledge.

In the lines "Lodg'd with....chide", he states that after losing his vision he has realized the importance of God and now he wishes to serve him more than ever to prove that how much he loves him. In the next line, he extends his desire to serve the God by asking the question that does it require hard work of a day or less to please the God, as his blindness may not allow him to do so.

In the lines, "That murmur......waite", he describes that how his own wisdom answers him that God does not need anyone hard work or any kind of sacrifice to please him. One can serve the God by obeying his wishes. It is the only best way to serve the God.

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