Question

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

• A. 35
• B. 44
• C. 52
• D. 48

Answer 1

Answer:

B. 44

• 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.