"If but some vengeful god would call to me from up the sky, and laugh:' Thou suffering thing, know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, that thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!' Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I had willed and meted me the tears I shed. "(1073)
We know that God is loving and kind and wants us to "proper and be in health, even as our soul prospers." (Bible) When things are going good, we attribute that to God blessing us. When things go bad, we usually attribute that to some evil force. Sometimes in life we go through such pain and disappointments that our intellectual vision is clouded. Such is the case in this poem. His situation was so unbearable that he thought God was playing a cruel joke. If we believe that God ultimately wants what is best for us, when bad things happen, we can endure it better by telling ourselves that it is God's will for our lives.
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Sherri,
This post doesn't seem as insightful as most of your previous ones, perhaps because you don't a point of connection between your thoughts and experiences and Hardy's. You state "We know that God is loving and kind" but I don't think it is at all the case that Hardy thought that; this basic gap in perception makes it difficult for you to get his poem, I suppose.
i feel the same way, God puts us through things for a reason
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