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?”

When John Milton wrote his Sonnet XIX, he was facing the physical challenge of blindness.What fears are described in these lines of verse from the sonnet?


The speaker describes how he fears that his blindness may prevent him from serving God through poetic writing.


The speaker describes how he fears that he may have spent all of his savings.


The speaker describes how he fears that blindness has robbed him of his one talent.


The speaker describes how he fears that he does not have the patience to continue writing poetry.