What moral message does miltons on his blindness
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The sonnet ‘On His Blindness’ teaches us a moral lesson. It teaches about the mighty weapon of success. That is patience. The human life is full of ups and downs. It is never a bed of roses; rather step by steep we live by means of struggling. The world is ephemeral. But the life after death is eternal. Once John Milton said ‘Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity’. In the midst of sufferings, we have to keep patience. Shakespeare told ‘How poor are they who have not patience!’
Being blind, the poet also did not lose his head. He still thinks the God is merciful. God did not do any harm to him. But he had a particular pain inside. He wanted to serve his God properly. But after losing his vision, he thought he had become invalid to do so. The poet, however, got his consolation in the lap of patience. Being blind, pain had become the teacher of Milton. Pain makes him remind his existence. That’s’ why Buddha said, ‘Pain is the outcome of sin’. That means pain turned his attention towards his God. It purified his heart as if he can understand the value of patience. It enriched his spiritual faculty. That’s why German Poet Heinrich Heine mentioned ‘Pain spiritualizes even heart’.
Thus this poem asserts the value of pain and patience. Pain teaches us to understand the value of patience. This is the moral lesson of the sonnet. At the end we can say with the words of Russian philosopher Rousseau, ‘Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet’.
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