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Reflections of Milton in is Works
At a young age, John Milton was convinced that he was destined for
greatness. He thought that he "might perhaps leave something so written to
aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die"(Text 414). For this
reason he thought that his life was very im ....
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.... was not the last time Milton referred to
his condition in his writing. In book one of Paradise Lost, while invoking
the Muse, Milton says "what in me is dark illumine"(Hndout 22). He asks to
be granted the power to work through his blindness. He obviously thinks of
his blindness as a major weakness. Later in the text, he describes Hell as
having "no light, but rather darkness visible"(Hndout 270). It is Milton's
way of almost subliminally implying that his condition is comparable to
being damned to the underworld. His blindness was something that he
cons ....
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