Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?

Milton was blind. There was very little he could do that didn't require his eyes.

So he's asking if God (or man) takes away the light, what labor can he do?

I didn't see the choices. Mine would be C, but it is hard to eliminate D. As a somewhat religious person, I cannot bring myself to think God is responsible for my illnesses. It is just my body breaking down. All of us have that affliction (our bodies do break down to the point of no repair).

I accept D as a natural event that all of us succumb to. It is not God's doing. It is just us running out of time. You may find this a very unsatisfactory reason for not choosing D, but it is the way I would answer the question.

I think C explains the line much better than does D.

How does God expect him to work when he is blind?

Explanation:

In this stanza, Milton reflects on the fact that he is losing his vision. Milton thinks of how his talents have always been employed in matters that require him to see. Moreover, these talents have enabled him to produce work throughout his life. Milton wonders how he will cope with going blind so young. He asks whether God expects him to be able to work in any way when he cannot see.

the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.