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 subtly hint at the parable described in the bible. In this parable a talent is a
form of currency, and to be unproductive with it is disp…