The Sonnets of John Milton John Milton

John Milton and William Shakespeare both address topics of love and death in their respective sonnets, but do so in radically different ways. They employ different structural techniques and subjects within the realm of love and death, and in doing...

The poems “When I consider how my light is spent” by John Milton and “A Blind Man” by Jorge Luis Borges express two different points of view and approaches to the concept of becoming blind. In both poems, the narrators express their thoughts and...

A rare two-tailed form of the sonnet serves as the canvas for one of Milton’s political poems regarding the state and the church’s limitations on individual thoughts, actions, and subjectivity in “On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long...