Help with poetry please?

Question:"when i consider how my light is spent
ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
and that one talent whih 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?"
i fondly ask, but patience to prevent
that murmur, soon replies, "god doth not needd
either man's work or his own gifts; who best
bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. his state
is kingly. thousands at his bidding speed
and post o'er land and ocean without rest
they also serve who only stand and wait" -john milton
1) to what extent do the 2 major divisions of this form organize the poem's ideas?
2) what problem is raised in the octave? what are the speaker's complaints? who is the speaker in the sestet? how are conflicts raised in the octave resolved?

- please help. i would be grateful. i truly don't understand this.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "when i consider how my light is spent
ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
and that one talent whih 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?"
i fondly ask, but patience to prevent
that murmur, soon replies, "god doth not needd
either man's work or his own gifts; who best
bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. his state
is kingly. thousands at his bidding speed
and post o'er land and ocean without rest
they also serve who only stand and wait" -john milton
1) to what extent do the 2 major divisions of this form organize the poem's ideas?
2) what problem is raised in the octave? what are the speaker's complaints? who is the speaker in the sestet? how are conflicts raised in the octave resolved?

- please help. i would be grateful. i truly don't understand this.

This is one of Milton's sonnets. He is complaining about his blindness - "my light is spent ere half my days".

I cannot see which is the octet and which the sextet but in the second half, Milton's patience personified answers his own complaints.

The meaning of the sonnet is that life still has meaning to Milton even though he is blind and cannot work.