PAG 200 ES 1

• Human vulnerability
• Empowerment of other senses
• Inability to work

PAG 201 ES 1

• Lines 1 – 8
• Lines 8 – 14

PAG 201 ES 2

1. The poet is speaking
2. He refers to how he has spent his life when he could see.

The world is described as dark because the speaking voice sees it as a huge darkness.

1. The “talent” refers to the evangelic Parable of the Talents. The one talent of the poet is writing, but it is useless, according to the speaking voice, because if you are blind, you can’t write and serve God.
2.  His Maker is God.
3. He is asking a way to serve God, despite his blindness.

PAG 201 ES 3

1. He replies the patience.
2. It says that he can serve God only standing and waiting.

PAG 201 ES 4

1. The rhyme pattern is: ABBAABCACDECDE
2. The sonnet has a Petrarchan structure.

PAG 201 ES 5

1. When I consider how my light is spent
2. Anticipation
3. The peculiarity in Milton’s sonnet is the reflection on his condition and the connection with his will to serve God. It is more evident from line 8.
4. The dominant feeling are: frustration (in the first octave) and then uneasiness.

PAG 201 ES 6

1. Maker – God – mild yoke – kingly
2. The last line contains a paradox because it is written that people who stand and wait, also serve God.
3. The tropes convey acceptance and resignation.

PAG 201 ES 7

1. ove
2. frustation
3. talent
4. syntax
5. anticipation
6. uneasing
7. accept
8. endure
9. submission
10. faith