"I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm."

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Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."

— Shakti Gawain