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"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley

This poem, in a unit involving irony, was ever so ironic. Ozymandias, once upon a time, was a ruler of Egypt or some sandy place like that. Being a natural-born douche bag, he abused his power and made pretty things to show himself off. Mr. Hotstuff is then come across years later in statue form by a "traveler" who said even his statue was smug. It commented on how Ozymandias did such big, big, big things and that we should all cower at his kingdom and his sneering visage. The funny ha-ha part, though is that he's a broken statue in the middle of nowhere with nothing but sand around him! Maybe you had to be there. Either way, I thought the poem was interesting in that it satirized a dead historical figure. But Ozymandias is supposed to represent a current political figya of that time, but just who it is will remain a mystery because I have not the brain-power or background information to unravel this pertinent mystery.

Meh.

Chalupa! Which means "I'm Hungry" in Hispaniola.

"Next to of course god america i" by E. E. Cummings

Oh well hey, look at this, they ain't no punctshahation up in hurr. The lack of most punctuation helps to further jumble up many phrases of patriotism. These come from traditional United States songs and a now cliche ideology of "freedom isn't free and I'm proud of it because people died." Even the poem form has gone awry in that Cummings smashed up both an English and Italian sonnet in his work. What a sly dog...Woof! Then ending with a narration of the quoted speaker's actions, reveals this "speech" was delivered on the very morals it tried to denounce after "He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water." The nonsensical speech attempting to whip people up into a patriotic frenzy while being delivered by someone unconfident and insecure which is illustrated by his rapid water drinking directly after his speech.

God Bless Uhmurica!

Lightning Blew Up my Modem. How does that feel? Squishy?

"Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy

When I was little, I was definitely jealous of girls who got to play with dolls in their AWESOME doll houses with their AWESOME accessories (a hot pink Corvette screams classy) that provided hours of endless fun. But boys were supposed to go outside and get dirty and push each other around and throw dirt in each other's eyes. These are just two "societal norms" placed on children today. Well, guess what society, I hate outside and I happen to appreciate the finer details of a fine pink, plastic Corvette. If only the girl in "Barbie Doll" could have taken a few lessons from this rogue, then she wouldn't be in her final resting place covered in wrappings of irony. The girl is described as intelligent, healthy, and overall AWESOME; however, someone notes her imperfect nose and legs. From this she feels she must alter herself into a cookie-cutter shape society projects for all people to follow, much like the Barbie dolls I was denied the right to play wit....I mean, that she played with in her youth. When she changes her outside to become pretty for society, she loses that which makes her AWESOME and degrades into a death of her physical/mental/emotional self.

I wasn't alone!!

Doorbells and doorknobs and unicorns and rainbows and stickers!

IRONY and a PUN


"'Hey! that's not the way,' Bill said. 'Say something ironical. Make some crack about Primo de Rivera'"
"I could ask her what kind of a jam they think they've gotten into in the Riff." "'Poor,' said Bill. 'Very poor. You can't do it. That's all. You don't understand irony. You have no pity. Say something pitiful.'" "Robert Cohn."
pg. 119

I don't think either of them understand irony. If only the magical interwebz was invented in their day, then they could have gone to this site. It expertly and humorously (always a plus) explains how to use irony properly and what is and isn't irony. I'll point out that Abby Koop also used this site in one of her blogs, which I think we both found while procrastinating on http://www.stumbleupon.com/. I totally called dibs on it first in my head, but I procrastinated longer, so she put it up before me, but it was so my idea.

Indeed though, there was a pun involving jam in the quote. This further expresses Jacob's inability to comprehend the vast intellectual qualities of irony. If unable to understand irony, substitute two and a half parts pity. Blend.