The problem that is expressed in the octave (first eight lines) of this sonnet is: "Milton asks why his sight was taken from him so suddenly" (Option C)
A sonnet is a poem that consists of fourteen lines and that can utilize a number of rhyme schemes that is formal. Usually, it can have ten syllables per line.
Because Milton began to lose his sight, he wrote the sonnet as an expression of this problem.
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