The Internal Conflict.

In Milton's sonnet he strongly conveys his introspective nature. Through this personal battle of physical ineptness verses pleasing God, only one solution is to be discovered. Milton uses the metaphor light to give the reader a visual image of the nature of light. When any light is spent it is useless. The same uselessness of a burnt-out light is what Milton conveys himself as being without eyesight. In lines 2,3 Milton uses the word talent to …

…suppose this break in rhythm causes the reader to positively affirm the presence of Patience as a figure. The schematics of this sonnet are conventional as a whole, representing a melancholic man, in turmoil, seeking an answer to his merciless question. Irony presents itself in this poem in its entirety. Milton is in such misery because he cannot figure out how to please god in his blind state, while all God requires is blind faith!