Learn How to Dance in the Rain

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Learn how to Dance in the Rain Penny Bryant ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Deborah Zeringue January 29, 2014 Learn how to Dance in the Rain In life everyone experiences complicated situations that we struggle to overcome. You do not know which direction to turn or even the road to take because the problem may seem too unbearable to deal with. When situations like this occur in one’s life, it is great to turn to poetry. Poetry is feelings, expressed in words, to pass on a meaning. The textbook states, “Poetry is an expression of the human spirit,” (Clugston, R. W. 2010). John Melton wrote the poem, On His Blindness, in a lyric form of poetry known as an Italian sonnet. This poem perfects conflict, the lyric form, and a rhyme pattern that gives any reader a visual image of the theme of having faith. Like some will say, “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain,” (unknown). First, the conflict is throughout most of the poem and plays the major role in this literature work because it shows the struggle John is going through in life, blindness. John feels like he cannot go any further in life because of the blindness he is facing. He is mad at the world; as this one article expresses, “The speaker may be seething with frustration and even anger at God, he knows that he must tread very carefully if he wants to express himself,” (Shmoop Editorial Team, 2008). If John was to lose a leg or arm instead of his sight, he would probably be just as mad because it is a change, and out of his comfort zone. Once upset he turns to God and says, “Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?” (John Milton (1655) as cited by Clugston, R. W.2010). God responds and basically lets him know he does not need him. “God doth not need either man’s work or his own gifts,” (Clugston, R. W. 2010). John becomes very impatient but by the

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