justice is reason enough poem

For, to do so,I would have to wake upyoung again. Happily insane . Our teeth, our eyes. Even now, years later, I see his thin form lying on the sand. The new dawn balloons as we free it. The three parts of the soul reason, spirit and appetitive must be in the correct order, meaning that reason leads with spirit following and appetitive last. but I can't. I want a perfect life like in a movie. 1953 The title poem of Theodore roethke's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Waking, Poems 1933-1953 1953 , is a short, haunting meditation on living and . Six thousand people bought one of these, assuming, reasonably enough, that it would be terrific. There was a gun in the house. This realization prepares the reader for the last line of the volume: How I hate my destiny.. Part 1, A California Girl, concerns her self-projection as a daughter of the Golden State, while later parts elaborate and complicate Wakoskis shifting personae. The missing lover is also the central figure of Discrepancies and Apparitions, which contains Follow That Stagecoach, a poem that Wakoski regards as one of her best and most representative. A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove. When we think of poetrys champions of feminism of the 20th century, the women who stick with us are Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and June Jordon. In Reaching Out with the Hands of the Sun, the speaker first describes the creative power of the masculine sun, cataloging a cornucopia of sweetmeats that ironically create fat thighs and a puffy face in a woman. The concept of poetic justice is often referenced, but not always fully understood. It is a remarkable poetic piece. Poet and essayist Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California. . And finally comes boredom with the story, so that finally we invent music, and the nature of music is that you must hear all the digressions., Wakoskis poetry is sometimes described as conversational or talky but while the poems appear to be informal and casually built, they are in fact tightly structured. 2 min read. It's Not Fair Poems: Similar to "I Wish" poems, each line of the poem begins with "It's Not Fair" and the poem should be 8-10 lines long. March 9, 2022 Tom Atkins Poem: Reason Enough Reason Enough And suddenly, the snow is gone. The fear of the laborers outside the house, the memory of the absentee fathershe has left these behind as she finds love and warmth with her mechanic lover, whose warmth is suspect, however, because he threw me out once/ for a whole year. Mechanically expert, he does not understand or appreciate her running parts and remains, despite their reunion, the voices in those dark nights of her childhood. Wise enough. 457-465, Box: 14, Folder: 3. I am a part of it. Bibliography Brown, David M. Wakoskis The Fear of Fat Children. Explicator 48, no. [and] he can allow her a voice that can reaffirm human connection, impossible at closer ranges. This theme of the failure of relationships, of betrayal by others (especially men), is a central concern of Wakoskis, and many of her mythological figures embody one or more of the facets of human relations in which she sees the possibility of betrayal or loss. Instead of going the confessional route, she formed a way to write about her truths indirectly. No man deserves to be deprived of Life Liberty or Property, we all know that. The Magellanic Clouds looks back at earlier volumes in its reworking of George Washington and the moon figures, but it also looks ahead to the motorcycle betrayal figure and the King of Spain. Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women. The slickness of the wordplay makes it seem a done deal, smuggling the revolutionary desire to dynamite all existing norms including what we understand as 'justice' - past the listener, on a tide of verbal showboating. As the poem moves to its solution, the speaker continues to waver, as is the case in Smudging. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker revels in warmth and luxuriance; she refers to amber, honey, music, and gold as she equates gold with your house, perhaps also her lovers body, and affirms her love for him. Snow again. She has said, The purpose of the poem is to complete an act that cant be completed in real lifea statement that does suggest that there are both reality and the poem, which is then the completed dream. After finishing her BA, Wakoski moved to New York City, where Hawks Well Press, the press founded by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg and David Antin, published her first poetry collection, Coins and Coffins (1962). Although the temporally complete Greed, all thirteen parts, was published in 1984, parts of it were printed as early as 1968, and Wakoski has often included the parts in other collections of her poetry. What, then, besides not aligning herself with the feminist or any movement, has kept her out of the 20th century canon? These are Wakoski poems, after all, even if they seem to have been co-written with the editors of Entertainment Weekly. Being truly just and not just appearing just is necessary for true happiness. The speaker reverts to her doberman behavior, and, though she persists in maintaining distance, she uses her poems and songs to achieve acceptance: I felt alive./ I was glad for my jade memories.. Share your story! Jefferson, N.C.: Mc- Farland, 1987. Enough is also a pronoun . Am I too fat to matter I mean I had a whole eating disorder. it's confusing and scary and I'm scared like a cat when it sees a cucumber. She, on the other hand, has become the hot metal, the golden orange that exists independently of him. In the forests, tubes full of sap begin to drip. Nowhere is the imaging more violent than in the Poems from the Impossible, a series of prose poems that contain references to gouged-out eyes, bleeding hands, and cut lips. In this volume, she introduces the image of the lost lover, thereby creating her own personal mythology. South Carolina Review 38, no. Although his is a name she does not cherish because he early abandoned her, he has provided her with military,/ militant origins, made her a maverick, and caused her failed relationships. Sure, many might bristle at Wakoskis refusal to classify herself as this or that on traditional terms, but, for me, discovering her work with no history or academy to bring to it, work which didnt hide rage or sexuality, which dared to have a female speaker call herself ugly, which was unafraid to call out its longing well, Wakoski is a feminist hero of mine, whether or not shed care for the term or the sentiment. Whether it's Fathers Day or any time of year, here are poems about all types of dads. The latter volume became the first part of a major Wakowski endeavor with the collective title The Archaeology of Movies and Books. Amanda Gorman, who delivered the 2021 inaugural poem at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' Presidential inauguration, was the youngest ever inaugural poet, delivering a powerful and impactful poem. Whatever you feel like today, you are enough. She denies that hers is an angry statement, affirming instead that it is joyful, and her tone at the end of the poem is playful as she evokes the country singers for every time/ you done me wrong.. That we just want more. Physical description 2 . (Possession becomes the focus for the ongoing thirteen parts of Greed.) ~A few months later~ I don't know how to explain to my therapist. Firstly, in this poem, Joe says justice is unpredictable: "Justice seems to have many faces/ It does not play if my skin is not the right hue" (lines 1-2). Wakoski's poems focus on intensely personal experiences while at the same time inventing and incorporating personae from mythology and archetype; they often rely on digressions, on tangential wanderings through imagery and fantasy, to present ideas and themes. Winter in Vermont. Photo by Hello I'm Nik on Unsplash. In the third poem, The Prince of Darkness Passing Through This House, the speaker refers to the Queen of Nights running barking dog and to this house, but the Prince of Darkness and the Queen of Night are merged like elemental fire and water. and some might drift. To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Written in the aftermath of an epic breakup, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems captured the early 70s zeitgeist. Wakoskis work presents some challenges to feminist scholars who would have her, too. I hadnt heard of three of the poets Carol Berg, Barbara Moraff, and Rochelle Owens. Isis, a central figure in The Magellanic Clouds, is introduced in The Ice Eagle of Inside the Blood Factory. She states that the poem must organically come out of the writers life, that all poems are letters, so personal in fact that she has been considered, though she rejects the term, a confessional poet. She dedicated The Motorcycle Betrayal Read More And, as Wakoski wrote as her biographical note for many of her earlier books: The poems in her published books give all the important information about her life.. Many of the poems in this last section begin with a letter to Dickman, and give him, and the reader, the background of the poem. 1.Why are symbols important in a poem? Poems about Enough at the world's largest poetry site. Come winter, many of my friends seriously question my sanity. As Hayden Carruth suggested in the Hudson Review, Wakoski has a way of beginning her poems with the most unpromising materials imaginable, then carrying them on, often on and on and on, talkily, until at the end they come into surprising focus, unified works. Wakoskis collections of essays include Toward a New Poetry (1979), Variations on a Theme (1976), Creating a Personal Mythology (1975), and Form Is an Extension of Content (1972). 10 Greatest Poems about Death: A Grim Reader. In The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, betrayal, always a theme in Wakoskis poetry, becomes the central focus; the motorcycle mechanic represents all the men who have betrayed her. Then comes the telling and retelling of the story. To begin with, she has often been in the thrall of the male figure she cites her influences as male poets almost exclusively: Stevens, Williams, Koch, and OHara among many others. SinceWakoski is a performing poet, the notion of chants, developed by Jerome Rothenberg, was almost inevitable, considering her interest in the piano (another theme for future development) and music. Then comes the reaction to the story. Anyone who has a Netflix account or basically any connection to teenage girls knows that this buzz directly comes from the newly released Netflix series that is an adaption of the book. Well, because she has resisted being folded into that movement. Look closely at the forsythia, just two days ago Able enough . You cannot fix the whole world. Long 3 Place 3 Previous 2 Open 2 Write 2 Moment 2 Wait 2 Slave 2 Reason 2 Broken 2 Poetic Justice . This is ironic, of course, because sexist critics have portrayed her negatively. American Poetry Review, columnist, 1972-74. Recently rereading much of Diane Wakoskis long career, I was impressed how very much the poet is who she always is. She is constantly inventive, rarely predictable, and, in a way that somehow seems healthy and unthreatening, enormously ambitious. In Bay of Angels, Diane Wakoskis 23rd and most recent collection of poems, she continues with her career-long tropes and obsessions: love and betrayal, strong male figures and absent male figures, beauty and its shame-faced opposite. This poem was written after I had read an article in the NEW YORK TIMES called "George Washington the Home Gardener," (thus, "Sestina from the Home Gardener") and because I had started writing . Reading through Wakoskis earliest poems like this from 1962 was a lovely coda to reading through her most recent, and I am grateful for the span and scope of her long career: and because the truth is trembling on the tip of every golden,green, purple, black, magenta stamenand even the wind touches it with its tongue, passing by,but I never do,and want to,but am forbidden.Is there anyone who understands?Surely one of you with all your iron maskscan throw the dice and just once let them come flower-side upso that I can hold a daffodil in my hand and smile. Sister Arts: On Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Others. Why not Diane Wakoski? Her assertion is that poets are never writing autobiography in the strict sense (an idea I very much support) but are creating a myth of self in which to tell their most personal stories. At the end of the poem, the speaker reaches out to touch the men/ with fire/ direct from the solar disk, but they betray their gifts by brooding and rejecting the hands proffered them. E.E. Wakoski is the author of over 60 published collections of poetry and prose. She brilliantly highlights the multiple faces of justice and the way it is served to people. Moreover, as she writes in the introduction, All of the poems in this collection . Classic and contemporary poems of gratitude to send when youre feeling thankful. The same words I'm not yet man enough to say them to your face . Not by action, nor by word. "And you think this is reason enough to barge into offices that are closed for lunch?". The title, In Just, forms 1 word; Injust. Rothenberg described Wakoski in the early 1960s: Newly arrived in New York Wakoski was the first poet from the outside to truly join us, bringing with her an extraordinarily developed sense & practice of a poetry of the everyday that, in Robert Duncans words, might be fantastic life. It was in this way, as I later wrote of her, that her work, while striking a note of the autobiographicaleven to some ears (but not hers) the confessionalasserts the truth of an imaginal life that moves (at several of its remarkable [cosmological] peaks) toward what Keats spoke of as soul-making or world-making & Wallace Stevens as a supreme fiction.. Partly because George is so distant, he can be a safe listener. Writers Mindblock. The speaker in Running Men is left with the lesson the departing lover so gently taught in your kind final gesture,/ that stiff embrace. The sarcasm in gently and kind is not redeemed by her concluding statement that she lives in her head and that the only perfect bodies are in museums and in art. whence it came. Ranked poetry on Enough, by famous & modern poets. Lance Armstrong. In Bay of Angels, we find the same sprawling forms, wild lines of thought, exquisite control and focus. Making a child so sweet might be reason enough to live. In The Father of My Country, Wakoski demonstrates both the extraordinary versatility of the George Washington figure and the way repetition, music, and digression provide structure. In her personal mythology we have the recurring personas of George Washington, the King of Spain, the motorcycle betrayer, her twin David. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship, a Michigan Arts Foundation award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Reason enough. Inside the Blood Factory, Wakoskis next major poetic work, also concerns George Washington and her absentee father, but in this volume, her range of subject matter is much wider. The series investigated the mythology of modern America through movies and popular culture, personal history, geography, and a series of textual allusions including to Frank Baums Wizard of Oz. Read Amanda Gorman's Poem "The Hill We Climb," Which Was Featured at Joe Biden's Inauguration The 22-year-old poet is the youngest inaugural poet ever. Now some might say, it's alright, just move on, but Enough is Enough. DADDY WARBUCKS by ANNE SEXTON MERCY by LUCILLE CLIFTON After mentioning her father and her relatives, who have achieved sound measure/ of love (sound measure suggests substance but also a prosaic doling out of love), she turns to her mother, who threatens her with a long rifle that becomes a fishing pole with hooks that ensnare her. Justice is an immediate pleasure and not an onerous one because it follows reason and wisdom that results in joy. Is the "Right" to pursue happiness, treated like . About a week after I finished my third read-through of Bay of Angels, a friend gave me a chapbook he found at a used bookstore in Manhattan. Lynn Melnicks first collection of poetry. That I'm not here because my cousin. A broken heart. . Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare, Although she has been occasionally mischaracterized as a confessional poet, she is not confessing; she has created a cast of characters that represent things she might confess. Temperature about to fall. Isis, the Queen of the Night speaker, figures prominently in The Magellanic Clouds. Wakoski poses a resolution, "Justice is / reason enough for anything ugly. When it comes to the politics, politicians, police or justice system it means that the lies can become the truth and because of that the judgment can turn it into an upside-down decision. Justice is reason enough. The speaker, who expresses her condition in images of isolation and entrapment, is fascinated with aggressive male roles, embodied in the motorcyclist. And reasons though their number small Just one or two will do To get that melody to escape me The first verse-paragraph develops the idea that all fathers in Western civilization must have/ a military origin, that all authority figures have been the general at one time or other, and concludes with Washington, the rough military man, winning the hearts of his country. To a longtime reader of Wakoskis work, her The Diamond Dog was a thrilling comeback, containing much of what I treasure in her poetry: the wild yet controlled chaos of uneven lines and stanzas, the vivid imagery, and the fact that she is: Yes, still angry, / despite the beauty., The Diamond Dog is more directly autobiographical than much of her prior work, and Wakoski prefaces the book with an essay on her belief in personal mythology. Anyone who is familiar with her work, and certainly anyone who has read her essays and interviews, or, likely, any current or former students, will have heard Wakoski speak of personal mythology. Diane Wakoskis Personal Mythology: Dionysian Music, Created Presence. Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature 10 (Fall, 1982): 155-172. Sexually abused me; She did-A few years back,-But I've already made peace with that. Justice Is Reason Enough is a poem indebted to Yeats: the great form and its beating wings suggests Leda and the Swan. The form in this poem, however, is that of her apocryphal twin brother, David, with whom she commits incest. "We've learned that quiet isn't always peace.". Wakoskis other later poetry suggests that she is reworking older themes while she incorporates new ones, which also relate to her own life. In The George Washington Poems (1967), Wakoski addressed Washington as an archetypal figure. Wakoski was removed from the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry when its second edition came out; however, Rita Dove recently included her poem The Mechanic in The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. The world needs peace, Let the fighting cease. 10 Greatest Sonnets Concerning Other Poets. American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. Get LitCharts A + Elizabeth Jennings's 1987 poem "In Praise of Creation" is a hymn to divine order in the natural world. Contributor to "Burning Deck Post Cards: The Third Ten," Burning Deck Press, and to periodicals. Graphic novelists let loose in our archive. Wakoski can be very hardline about this personal mythology business; she strongly believes that there is a right and wrong way to tell ones story. """Your not wanting me to is reason enough.""". I have given you my youth and you took advantage of my un-experienced heart and played with my emotions. Here it is, courtesy, Lynette. While Waiting for the King of Spain features staple Wakoski figures (George Washington, the motorcycle mechanic, the King of Spain), lunar imagery (one section consists of fifteen poems about an unseen lunar eclipse, and one is titled Daughter Moon), and the use of chants and prose poems, it also includes a number of short poemsa startling departure for Wakoski, who has often stated a preference for long narrative poems. And she returns to David, her invented brother, at the other end of a lifetime, when she writes, in Bay of Angels: I myselfam looking for Davids footprintsin the soaked grass. The book closes with a section entitled, The Lady of Light Meets the Shadow Boy in which Wakoski writes I invented another hero recently She is speaking of a hockey player character newly appearing in her poems, but she could just as easily be speaking of the real-life Dickman. Justice (Noun)- the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause. But I suspect that, beyond her reluctance to identify as a feminist or female poet, and in spite of her often harsh and biting criticisms of real or imagined lovers, it might be her moony-eyed and near exclusive appreciation of men as muses that has kept her out of the feminist canon. It is time to just let go people judge, people hold back. Often equating militancy and fatherhood and suggesting that it is the military that elicits American admiration, the speaker abruptly begins a digression about her father; yet the lengthy digression actually develops the father motif of the first verse-paragraph and examines the influence he has had on her life. He makes the simple statement that "Love is enough.". enough. Her even balance claim; Unawed, unbribed, through good or ill, Make rectitude your aim. Resourceful enough. What begins as a conversation between the speaker and George becomes a masque, The Moon Loses Her Shoes, in which the actors are the stock figures of Wakoski mythology. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line. Summer rain. The poem, despite the repetition of fall apart, ends with her certainty that just as I would never fall apart,/ I would also never jump out of a window. In the other poem, the speaker begins with familiar lamentations about her sad childhood and turns to genes and the idea of repeating a parents failures. An eloquent poem that expresses angst and remorse in a very brogue matter. And justice is what is advantageous to the stronger, while injustice is to one's own profit and advantage." (344c) (5) In short, Thrasymachus believes that "the life of an unjust person is better than that of the just one." In The Queen of Night Walks Her Thin Dog, the speaker uses poetry, the singing that recurs in Whitmanesque lines, to penetrate the various veils that would separate her from houses, perhaps bodies, in the night. Today, I am enough. "When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. (2) Print Enough Is Enough Ilona M. Blake more by Ilona M. Blake Published by Family Friend Poems June 2019 with permission of the author. In 2017 the filmmaker Jesseca Ynez Simmons released a docufantasy titled Emerald Ice, an imagistic and imaginative narrative using Wakoskis poetry and voice. Diane Wakoski and the Language of Self. San Jose Studies 5 (Spring, 1979): 84-98. When the question of infidelity arises, the speaker is more concerned with being faithful to herself than to her lover(s). Which isnt to say she grows dull or less interesting with time, but shes not bending with trend. If only we're brave enough to be it.". Major Works In Ode to a Lebanese Crock of Olives the speaker again refers to the body she regards as physically unattractive, but she accepts her failed beach girl status and stacks the deck metaphorically in favor of abundance (the richness of burgundy,/ dark brown gravies) over the bland (their tan fashionable body). We've forgone the usual pipe cleaners, plastic googly eyes and Elmer's glue and decided to send you a heart-shaped box full of poets talking about poems they love. There is also the issue of male dominance in Wakoskis worldview and her writing, which she has quite often attributed to the spotty presence, and then disappearance, of her father when she was a child. Tags: American Literature, Analysis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Beat Generation, Bibliography of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Character Study of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Criticism of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Diane Wakoski, Diane Wakoski's Poems, Essays of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Literary Criticism, Notes of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Plot of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Poetry, Simple Analysis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Study Guides of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Summary of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Synopsis of Diane Wakoskis Poems, Themes of Diane Wakoskis Poems. Im talking about Wakoskis rhythms, which felt like mine, felt like my brain talking. In Sun Gods Have Sun Spots, she not only suggests male-sun blemishes but also affirms her own divinity in a clever role reversal: I am/ also a ruler of the sun.While the sun has an angry face, the speaker in The Mirror of a Day Chiming Marigold still yearns for the poet or astronomer to study my moon. Wakoski thus at least tentatively resolves two earlier themes, but she continues to develop the King of Spain figure, to refer to the rings of Saturn, to include some Buddha poems and some prose fables, and to use chants as a means of conveying meaning and music. Like a happy child on that shining afternoon/ in the palmtree sunset her mothers trunk yielding treasures,/ I cry and/ cry,/ Father,/ Father,/ Father,/ have you really come home?. There has been a recent spotlight on the young adult fiction book Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Learn how to write a poem about Enough and share it! Hughes, Gertrude Reif. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch is a bit of a departure from Wakoskis earlier poetry, although it is consistent in mythology and themes with the rest of her work. If not these words, this breath. Even ahead of her classic Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch there are paragraphs of explanation before the poem can begin. Toward a New Poetry. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands, a relatively slender volume of poetry, not only alludes to Wakoskis fifteen years of piano study but also plays upon the keyboard- typewriter analogy to explore past relationships and her visionary life. Wakoski has always written notes to help the reader understand, not unlike what a lot of poets do at their own poetry readings, introducing each poem before it is read. "Just enough" are the virtues that can't turn back the clock to a given day, more hallow with all the words; Confusing the desires of a future free from denial in every possible way. Saying that "Justice seems to have many . The mythology is, in turn, used to develop her themes: loss and acceptance, ugliness and beauty, loss of identity and the development of self. Wakoskis talent is like that: relentless, sneaky, smart. Sometimes the structural layers and inventions are so thick, it is difficult to find our way into the emotional truth of the matter. With her it is a question of thematic and imagistic control; I think her poems are deeply, rather than verbally, structured. In Contemporary Literature, Marjorie Perloff spoke of Wakoskis purpose in writing nontraditionally structured poems, saying that Wakoski strives for a voice that is wholly natural, spontaneous, and direct. She taught for many years at Michigan State University. Here's more on alliteration, rhythm and rhyme - which she used so brilliantly to create something that resonated with . The tone is at times humorous, so much so that the poems may not be taken seriously enough, but there is also a sense of desperation. But I dont disclose my secrets easily.. Justice Langston Hughes - 1901-1967 That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes This poem is in the public domain. For her, poetry is healing, not fragmenting. century naval uniform and concludes with a chant, with repetitions and parallels, that expresses both her happiness and her uncertainty: And I say the name to chant it. On her blog Wakoski has written of her lifetime meander to find a new measure through word patterning, through repetition, including chant and incantation, and through creating personal mythologies that function using trope that leads to revelation. And in her work The Blue Swan: An Essay on Music in Poetry Wakoski summed up the process of poetry writing: first comes the story. Accordingly, she avoids all fixed forms, definite rhythms, or organized image patterns in the drive to tell us the Whole Truth about herself, to be sincere.. Over her decades-long career, Wakoski has been claimed by, or lumped in with, the Beats, the Black Mountain School, the confessional tradition, the deep image poets, and then, far too often, forgotten and ignored like many women writing mid-century by history and the younger poets who came after. Below zero. Her many collections of poetry include series stretching across multiple books, such as The Archeology of Books and Movies, whose titles include Medea the Sorceress (1991), Jason the Sailor (1993), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), and Argonaut Rose (1998). It balances the beauty in the / world." The later work continues the exploration of loss and maintains the . And hot showers, oh lovely, lovely hot showers. up and up into space. Many of these poems celebrate youth and celebrate vices, smoking, men. You have long enough let this conflict unfurl. Poet Poetic Justice, All Poems of Poetic Justice and best poem of Poetic Justice, his/her biography, comments and quotations. star dust returning from. (4) "[I]njustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is stronger freer, and more masterly than justice.