I really enjoyed reading this poem it made me think hard not only about the poem but about Matthew 25 also. I loved the line, "God doth not need either man's work or His own gifts." This really stuck out to me that God doesn't need our works are our good deed but we have the pleasure the honor to even serve a God as merciful and gracious as He is. This also alluded to the story in that the master did not need the talents he just wanted to know who was "a good and faithful servant" a who was a " wicked and slothful servant."
Another allusion in this poem is when he says, "When I consider how my light is spent ere half my days in this dark world wide, and that one talent which is death to hide." This is quite a obvious allusion but as I thought more deeply on these two little sentences I realized there was more than just them both talking about talents. He is talking about salvation in general that before he was called to believe he was in a "Dark world wide". He says that, "The one talent was death to hide," alluding to the servant that hid his talent and did not please the master by doing this, but also in the poem he is saying that just that one decision to disobey would be the death to his relationship to his master and his God.
In John Milton's poem it seems as though he has read this scripture and applied it to his life and how obedience is so important in the eyes of God. This poem has not only taught me to serve God to the highest extent that I can, but to do it expecting nothing. Finally, this poem is not only how we should honor God in our works but how we should also treat our authorities in our every day life.
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