Milton’s poetry is intensely autobiographical. It is in fact, the mirror to his own life.
In this respect quite different from Shakespeare whose objectivity is the marked feature of all his plays, it is very difficult to say where Shakespeare is to be seen among his characters, but Milton an be seen and felt in almost all that he has produced. His early poems, L. ‘Allegro and II Ponderosa, reflect the moods of young Milton, Satan is Milton, the arch rebel and lover of Keith, and the hero of Samson Agonists is also a reflection of the blind poet fallen on evil days, [in the Sonnets, his emotions find a more direct expression.