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when he was .................. years old, he became completely blind.

A35

B44

C52

D48

Answer:

B. 44

Read Explanation:

  • The poem "On His Blindness" is an autobiographical sonnet in which he expresses his feeling as a blind person. Milton's eyesight began to fade in 1644, and in 1652, when he was 44 years old, he became completely blind.

  • "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.


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