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Whose ancient crooked will is meant? The will of the devil in perverselydesigning the donkey, or the donkeys own venerable stubbornness?
 
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To what prehistoric era does Chesterton refer in lines 13?
 
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  • Were not certain. What do your students think?



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  • To the original chaos out of which the world was made. The poet apparently imagines it in bizarre dreamlike imagery: fish with wings, walking forests, fig-bearing thorn. Chesterton was fascinated by the book of Genesis because of its beginning in chaos, comments Garry Wills in his introduction to a reprint edition of Chestertons novel of 1908, The Man Who Was Thursday (New York: Sheed, 1975). The novel hints at a playful God who enjoys returning things to chaos every now and then. Writing about that world of dream in a newspaper article in 1904, Chesterton remarked, A world in which donkeys come in twos is clearly very near to the wild ultimate world where donkeys are made.



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