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Milton's "On His Blindness" is a

AEpic Poem

BAutobiographical Sonnet

CNarrative Ballad

DBlank Verse

Answer:

B. Autobiographical Sonnet

Read Explanation:

  • "Sonnet 19", more commonly called "when I consider how my light is spent", is a poem likely written in the mid-1950s, after Milton lost his eyesight, the poem reflects on the physical and spiritual challenges of the speaker faces as a blind person.

  • He feels unable to complete the tasks that God has set for him, and worries that he is squandering his capacity to serve God.

  • But, in the second half of the poem, the speaker reassures himself by arguing that God does not need human help and that there are many ways do serve him.


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