26/03/2021

HOMEWORK – ON HIS BLINDNESS

Page 201 exercise 1

Lines 7 and lines 9-14

Page 201 exercise 2

a. John Milton is speaking

b. He becomes blind, so he can’t see the world, he sees only darkness.

c. the talent he speaks of is death. Because it no longer makes sense to him.

d. God

e. He doesn’t know how to serve God, because he is blind.

Page 201 exercise 3

a. The patience

b. it says that he could serve God only standing and waiting

Page 201 exercise 4

a. ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

b. Petrarchan

Page 201 exercise 5

a. the blindness

b. it is at the beginning of the octave. Anticipation

c. in the octave the problem of blindness is exposed a way to do not to serve God in the secret there is the solution: he can serve God only waiting

d. frustration

Page 201 exercise 6

a. The sonnet contains some figure of speech. There is a personification of Patience in line 5 and an alliteration days-dark and in world-wide in line 2. There are also some metaphors: light which stands for sight in line 1, Talent which stands for genius in line 3 and day-labour which stands for work in line 7.

b. the paradox is: to serve God only standing and waiting, this means that you don't need to do much, just presence is enough, so being there for a person.

c. acceptance and resignation

Page 201 exercise 7

1. love

2. frustration

3. talent

4. syntax

5. anticipation

6. uneasiness

7. accept

8. endure

9. submission

10. faith

Page 201 exercise 8

I think my greatest talent is to always finish what I start. I think that a talent must never be wasted, indeed it must be used in our favour.