The attitude to affliction in the poem is based on the poet's lamentation on his blindness and his regrets. He laments his state of blindness -"How my light is spent / ere half my days, in this dearth world". Despite that he resolves to serve his creator alluding to the Biblical parable of the talent. He fears that God will blame him for failure to use his talent when he returns to him. Milton resolves to bowing to adversity and bears his mild yoke. He celebrates the spirit over the flesh.
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