Sonnet VII
Sonnet VII portrays time as a winged aspect that can hover. The speaker says, “Stol’n on his wings my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career.” The imagery of the wings establishes that time glides speedily is the same way that an airborne bird would. The temporariness of time elicits the momentariness of youth. Therefore, there exists a formidable causal linkage between time and youth. Clearly, the speaker is not latching onto his youth due to the appearance that does not intimate his maturity. Instead, the speaker declares, “Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav’n/All is If I have grace to use it so/As ever in my great Task-Master’s eye.” The pronouncement portends that the speaker is all set to take up manhood in mode that will amaze God.
Sonnet XIX
Sonnet XIX poses undertones of an existential predicament. The speaker wonders, “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” This question infers that the speaker cannot grasp why God would disallow him sight, yet he would have made use of the sight to toil for God. In other words, the speaker covertly probes: “Why did you (God) create me blind yet you discerned it would hinder me from working for you?” The speaker is persuaded that God played a role in his sightlessness, but is not persuaded that God’s deed is equitable.
