1. Naxhiely Flores Melissa Hernandez Per.5

2.  John Milton was born on December 9, 1608, in London.  lived on Bread Street in Cheapside  parents had enough money to afford Milton a tutor for classical languages and later afforded to pay an entrance to St. Paul's School in 1620.  he got interested in the music because his father wrote music, which later led to Milton’s love for poetry.  admitted to Christ's College Cambridge but he got temporarily expelled after he go into a dispute with 2 tutors.  when he returned, he resumed his study’s and worked on Latin poems.  he died November 8 1674 in London, England

3.  The genre of this poem is to learn how to be who you are without asking.  The form of the poem is a Petrarchan Sonnet a poem of 14 lines.

4.  The language of the poem contribute to it’s meaning because you need to be who you are even if you have difficulties and problems that affect your life.

5.  The poem is organized by 14 lines of pattern of rhyme.

6.  The poem contributes to the rhyme meaning because at the end of each sentence words rhyme with one another.  Ex. wide, hide, chide, denied, need, speed, best, rest.  Rhyme Scheme: ABBA, ABBA, CDE, and CDE.

7.  The tone of the poem is Darkness and Light.  The speaker speaks in this tone because he feels that God denies his eye sight.  ex. “When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide And that one talent which is death to hide.”

8.  A blind person that questions God on why he loses his sight.  The person we believe is the speaker is John Milton. He began to lose his sight in 1644, but went completely blind around 1650.

9.  The context of the poem is in a dark world where nothing can be seen.

10.  The theme of the poem is: accepting the love of god unconditionally even though you have a physical disability.  The theme of the poem is: that God will always love you no matter what happens to you in life.

11.  The speaker is talking to God about how losing his sight of seeing has made him stop believing in God somehow.

12.  In the poem the speaker is asking God why his light has been denied and how losing something important had made the speaker lose faith in religion.

13.  Our initial response to Milton’s poem is that he speaks about a strong man, that has lost his vision, is learning how to do things for himself.  This poem would give someone with disabilities or anybody to do what they truly wish in life and nothing should stop them.