Third Sonnet on John Milton
– Wyleian Sonnet CCLXI
John Milton, as a poet, was rather bold,
departing from the usual English form
of sonnet, then regarded as the norm.
He broke from William Shakespeare's sonnet mould,
reverting to Petrarchan forms of old
and, with his wayward viewpoints waxing warm,
his verse, political, caused quite a storm
resulting in rejection from the fold.
With marital relations rather strained
and failing eyesight's pitiless impost,
one should not marvel at his lack of fun
until new love his paradise regained
where he had thought all paradise was lost,
deprived of sight and light of stars or sun.
Hugh Wyles, August 22nd. 2009.
Author notes
I dedicate this Sonnet with love and thanks to Trish Curtis (Pattiboo) whose “Miltonian Sonnet (First Attempt)” - Wyleian Sonnet CCLX
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5643225
inspired my Muse and me to write the above.
John Milton's first wife did not understand her literary husband and frequently left him to live with her parents.
He remarried after her death only to lose his second wife in childbirth, the boy dying before he was a year old.
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Unfortunately, when putting it like you have, there is some considerable thought over how one may incorporate a term applied, in sonnet form, such is the subject matter, yet like many of us, this very brave attempt does seem forced and I have to say, would have been a subject matter I would have evaded.
Your explanation is far more extraordinary and brilliant, but to put this into sonnet form was always going to be difficult, I have to say, does one sacrfice form for the intelligence of the write. I think I'd chicken out somehow, but I enjoyed the tale. I THINK I SHALL GIVE IT A TRY HUGH.
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