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    Po·et·ic jus·tice
    /pōˈedik ˈjəstəs/

    noun

    • 1. the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions: "the noise was deafening and it was poetic justice when the amplifiers stalled just before the start"

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  2. 1 day ago · The sinners of each circle are punished for eternity in a fashion fitting their crimes: each punishment is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice. For example, later in the poem, Dante and Virgil encounter fortune-tellers who must walk forward with their heads on backward, unable to see what is ahead, because they tried to see the ...

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