# CXCII explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief reflection on nature's use of contrast, allowing moments of near happiness to alleviate human wretchedness.

## Key lines

> 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._

## Links

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