Poetic Justice

Poetic justice is a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct.

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    “No poetic phantasy
    but a biological reality,
    a fact: I am an entity
    like bird, insect, plant
    or sea-plant cell;
    I live; I am alive.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)