Milton's "Sonnet 19"

Milton’s “Sonnet 19” and the two parables from the Bibles John Milton’s work “Sonnet 19” alludes to the two parables in the Bibles: “The Parable of the Talents” and The Parable of Workers in the Vineyard”. Milton’s allusion to the two parables shows how religious he is and conveys his religious thoughts: everyone has to serve God as well as his guilt and depression that he could not serve “his Maker” by creates poems anymore because he became blind. Moreover, as the parables is the story or message which Jesus uses as tools to teach about righteousness and religious lessons, Milton’s allusion to the parables is like he is talking with God through the parables and uses God’s message to console himself to regain confidence and to make an excuse for his failures to serve God. The first parable that he alludes to is “The Parable of the Talents”. This parable is about God as a master and men as his servant which men have to serve his master by make use of the “talents” or coins given by God. Milton compares himself to the servant who has got only one talent and does not make use of it as he says “And that one talent… lodged with me useless”. That talent is his ability to write or to see that stuck with him uselessly according to his blindness. The servant also doubts God that why God want to reap where he did not make it himself and Milton’s doubts is to complain that if God want him to serve as compose a poem, why do not support him but denied his light. Finally, it implies Milton’s understand that he became blind because God casts him into the darkness same as the way he casts that unprofitable servant. Another parable is “The Parable of Workers in the Vineyard”. In this parable, it talks about the laborers who hired to work in the vineyard but all of them got the same hire: a penny, no matter how long they had worked. This parable can help interpret the conclusion of the sonnet that to God, everyone is equal. God does not only serve the one who “post o’er land