Holder Oak
Holder Oak
Does the fable The Raven and the fox contaion a paradox? Please answer, will pick best answer :]?
Perch'd on a lofty oak,
Sir Raven held a lunch of cheese;
Sir Fox, who smelt it in the breeze,
Thus to the holder spoke:─
"Ha! how do you do, Sir Raven?
Well, your coat, sir, is a brave one!
So black and glossy, on my word, sir,
With voice to match, you were a bird, sir,
Well fit to be the Phoenix of these days."
Sir Raven, overset with praise,
Must show how musical his croak.
Down fell the luncheon from the oak;
Which snatching up, Sir Fox thus spoke:─
"The flatterer, my good sir,
Aye liveth on his listener;
Which lesson, if you please,
Is doubtless worth the cheese."
A bit too late, Sir Raven swore
The rogue should never cheat him more.
A paradox isn't the way I'd put it. But
1. The fox thinks that he has got the prize--the cheese--but he has given the raven something more valuable: the advice by which the raven can live better off than before, so the fox comes off second best although he seems to come off on top.
2. The fox is on the ground and base but the raven who is, in a sense, duped is on a higher plane--in a "lofty"oak.
3. In order to vent his anger the raven has to open his beak to swear, but in doing so he repeats the same action that caused him to lose the cheese in the first place.
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