John Milton "On His Blindness" Sonnet 19 | Close Reading

A close reading and analysis of John Milton's Sonnet 19 "On his blindness" or "When I consider how my light is spent."
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[@sb5421]

Great video and good point about Milton’s “syntactical extension” as you call it. That was Milton’s power and the power of his prosody-the most beautiful in the English language so far as I can tell. The passage beginning “God doth not need” is extraordinary.

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[@EnglishDepartmentUNLV]

Wonderful analysis! Thank you!

[@lydiapaley495]

Thanks, very helpful for my Alevel revision

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A.o.A
Sir! Can you make a vedio on its analysis ?
Kindly 😊

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Could you analyze Keats' odes?

[@die_schlechtere_Milch]

When I started studying literature at university, I was expecting something like this: reading truly great poetry, learning to appreciate and understand it better, to contextualize it, to get to know better the tradition from which these works come, and ultimately learn how to listen to the words of others and see through these words the worlds they saw in our world. Instead, I had to read about eco-feminism, chicks with *icks, all kinds of transfomers and how Derrida and Foucault had demonstrated the truth of the statement that there are neither statements nor truth. I am glad that I left this clown show behind me quickly.
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