The first of the great determinants of fate in the Drama is Poetic Justice.
A better notion of Poetic Justice is to understand it as the modification of justice by considerations of art.
Poetic Justice, however, is a wider term than Nemesis.
I considered it a piece of poetic justice that he should be the one to restore the people whom he had stolen, and whose lives he had ruined.
Now, poetic justice is, on the whole, the way of art, until we come practically to the realistic art of our own generation.
To guard against these effects we should see to it that the children do not have an unduly large amount of literature; and we should select those stories in which the operation of poetic justice is as little misleading as possible.
As to the way in which the conclusion is brought to pass, there is to the child and to the childlike mind, in literature as in life, something eminently satisfying in poetic justice.
As a matter of fact, in practically every short and completed story of the kind we choose for children the end is precipitated and adjusted by the operation of poetic justice.
Such a conception of tragedy involves a recognition of the blindness of chance that cannot be squared with any theory of poetic justice or theological view of the rewards due to virtue.
Did you ever hear o' sic a thing as poetic justice, Sergeant?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetic justice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
