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Milton's 'Sonnet 14.' (John Milton)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19940322
Author:Martin, Thomas C.

John Milton wrote 'Sonnet 14' in memory of his friend, Catharine Thomason. The sonnet is characterized by several dualisms or pairs, of which faith and love are the most prominent. Faith and love and the paradoxes of life and death and ripening and rising represent Thomason's good works that bring her in death toward a higher state. The pairs also symbolize incompleteness and they lead Thomason's soul toward completeness or glorification.

SONNET XIV

ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF MRS. CATHARINE THOMASON, MY CHRISTIAN FRIEND, DECEASED 16 DECEMBER, 1646

When Faith and Love which parted from ...

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