Summary of the poem on another's sorrow stanza wise explanation
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The speaker asks himself whether he can see the sorrows of another and not be moved in his own heart. The answer, as with most rhetorical questions, is “no.” From the general suffering of another, the speaker moves to the grief of a father over his children’s sorrows and a mother’s tears over her children’s pain. From this understanding of his own capacity for compassion, the speaker derives his view that God, “he who smiles on all,” cannot see the suffering of others, whether man or beast, without also being moved to pity.
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The speaker asks himself whether he can see the sorrows of another and not be moved in his own heart. The answer, as with most rhetorical questions, is “no.” From the general suffering of another, the speaker moves to the grief of a father over his children’s sorrows and a mother’s tears over her children’s pain. From this understanding of his own capacity for compassion, the speaker derives his view that God, “he who smiles on all,” cannot see the suffering of others, whether man or beast, without also being moved to pity.
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