Carrion Comfort Religion Quotes

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Quote #4

[…] That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God. (13-14)

The speaker's big reveal—which is news to him as well—comes in these final lines of the poem. All this time that he's been struggling with depression, he's actually been undergoing a kind of divine test, sent to him by God to strengthen his character.