Within his sonnet "On His Blindness," Milton emphasizes the struggle of a man who has suffers blindness but nonetheless possesses the ability to manage his affliction with the assistance of God. The subject's "one Talent which is death to hide," proves unsuccessful to distance the man from his Creator with his "Soul more bent to serve therewith my Maker." Blindness fails to weaken the man due to his understanding that God does not value worldly works above his child's ability to "best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best..." Though there are "thousands at his bidding speeed and post o're Land and Ocean without rest," God does not forsake those who "only stand and waite."

     Milton's commentary on his own blindness offers an intimate sense of his relationship with God and his willingness to live his life in accordance with Biblical principles. Though his sight is a  "Talent" hidden away, Milton did not intend to hide, or bury, his Talent in allusion to the Biblical parable, and therefore his lack of sight becomes a yoak to bear rather than an oversight, or mistake on the part of Milton. 

     Milton's Christian influence is apparent within his sonnet and remains consistent with his writing of Paradise Lost. Milton's works are, in reality, God's works and are produced not through his own ability but, instead, through God's gifts and the bearing of his yoak.