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CXCII explained
A brief reflection on nature's use of contrast, allowing moments of near happiness to alleviate human wretchedness.
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A brief reflection on nature's use of contrast, allowing moments of near happiness to alleviate human wretchedness.
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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“As Nature can not make us altogether wretched she resorts to the trick of contrast by making us sometimes almost happy.”
Since nature cannot make us completely miserable, it uses contrast to give us moments of near happiness.
Reflection on the role of contrast in human experience.
