A passage in Book 3 where Milton laments his blindness reminds me of the suicide speech of Sophocles’ Ajax. Such is the power of poetry, which made me realize for the first time, that blindness is death, spiritual blindness in particular. Milton uses the same metaphor more explicitly in Samson Agonistes. Ajax But you, Sweet gleam of daylight now before my eyes, And Sun-God, splendid charioteer, I greet you For […]
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