Reflections Of Milton In Is Works

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talent is "lodged with [him]
useless"(Text 417). His religious side soon realizes that he is
"complaining" to God and he takes it back. He discovers that God will not
look down on him if he does not write a masterpiece. He granted Milton a
great talent, and he expects Milton to be happy. He has to learn to do his
work in a dark world. This poem was not the last time Milton referred to
his condition in his writing. In book one of Paradise Lost, while invoking
the Muse, Milton says "what in me is dark illumine"(Hndout 22). He asks to
be granted the power to work through his blindness. He obviously thinks of
his blindness as a major weakness. Later in the text, he describes Hell as
having "no light, but rather darkness visible"(Hndout 270). It is Milton's
way of almost subliminally implying that his condition is comparable to
being damned to the underworld. His blindness was something that he
constantly had to deal with and he managed to include it in most of his
works.
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