Nose versus Eyes
The summary of the poem:
It is a satirical poem written by William Cowper on the judiciary system indicating blind justice, lack of common sense and empathy.
The overall poem is presented in the form of a competition between the nose and eyes and involves the spectacles as the subject of their competition. Poem has explain the dispute between Eyes and Nose. The eyes and the nose both presented their claims upon the pair of spectacles and wanted to affirm to the fact that this pair of spectacles belong to them.
In this case Ears and Tongue functioned as a lawyer who tried to solve this dispute by explaining who had better claim over the pair of spectacles. Tongue argued for the side of nose and explained how nose has a right over the spectacles. The nose had been accustomed to this for a very long time and it had gone accustomed with the straddle too. Further he stayed that a pair of spectacles is useless if one does not have a nose.
On the other hand, the tongue was futile in supporting the eyes. Tongue was not successful in support of Eyes. Finally outcome of the result is that one should shut off their eye whenever one wears a pair of spectacles on their nose.
Hence the main idea of the poem is that one should not trust in what the lawyers say and do and what law decides as they are not always true.
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