When I Consider How My Light is Spent Essay -- Literary Analysis, John

lavatory Miltons Sonnet XIX, known as When I Consider How My dizzy Is Spent is a rime chooseing ones disabling regret in clean-cut of a time-less truth that the Apostle Paul wrote of every last(predicate) things take a leak to the good who love graven image and one thereby learns to be nitty-gritty in all things. Miltons disabling affliction was blindness and by most interpretative accounts he was blind when he wrote Sonnet XIX. nether Gods providence Milton considers his dark infirmity and writes (dictates?) in light thereof. In this darkness and in this light I will consider Miltons Sonnet.First to consider is that the poem used in The Norton Anthology of face Literature is an edited version from The Complete Poetry and Major Prose of Milton, edited by Merritt Y. Hughes. The poem that will be considered here is the 1673 text printed in The Riverside Milton, edited by Roy Flannagan. The decision of Riverside was not to intervene into the text, but to leave as it was wri tten. Hughes changes insert punctuation, capitalization and spelling to update it to a modern audience. By modernizing the poem Hughes has effectively changed the meaning to what he as the editor had in mind. Milton wanted good readers, readers that read deeper than appear meanings and by changing the text the art of Miltons words be compromised for the poem was designed to confuse the reader. Milton as a wordsmith is preparing the reader for a spiritual confusion that leads one to a question. Hughes editing reinforces the binary aspects of the poem that sets up one utterer in the octave and one speaker in the sixer, the problem in the octave then the solution in the sestet, if one likes. If one leaves out the editorial changes, the octave speaker and the sestet speaker become erased... ... is required of all humankind. In Miltons division of patience the voice of complaint was quelled and regardless of time fatigued working or what affliction besets one, God is generous and graciously provides all through the unction of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghosts flora derive from ones faith and by this spirit operates inwardly one to the glory, social occasion and will of God. This will of a holy God who sends forth his messengers to Godspeed in giving good success to forward his purpose in the talent or gift that he distributes by the surgical operation of the selfsame Spirit. Milton acknowledges obedience to this one God that he puts himself at organisation to, and in all this Milton charged not God foolishly (Job 122 K.J.V.). John Miltons darkness will in one twenty-four hours stand in the eternal unspent light as he waits to consider the words enter in good and faithful servant.