Law Like Love Discussion Question
In the lines \\\\\\\"Law is neither wrong nor right, / Law is only crimes / Punished by places and by times,\\\\\\\" Auden presents a more relativistic view of law. How does this depiction of law as context-dependent challenge the more rigid, universal definitions of law presented earlier in the poem (i.e., \\\\\\\"Law is The Law\\\\\\\")? What does this suggest about Auden\\\\\\\'s overall perspective on the nature of law, and how does it relate to the final comparison of law to love?—that is to say, are people any more faithful to the idea of love than they are to an idea of law?
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