Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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!

I would be in a band called the Backstreet Hags.

"Much Madness is Divinest Sense" by E.D.

As a wunderbar segue to more societal issues we delve into the paradoxical and satirical poem of the ever lovely E.D. In this one, E.D. gives us a little seeming contradiction with which to enrich ourselves by equating "madness" to "sense." And then stating if one has "sense" then one really has "madness." Yet to be mad, in the speaker's eyes, is to disagree with the majority, to demur. Society will then tell you thatcha craazzzzy if you would ever consider to disagree with them and that the only sensible thing to do is blindly assent. Yet when one does not think for themselves or at all, then one has no brain function and is madder than a hatter. Yet to use one's brain is madness by society's standards, yet logically, to think is to have "divinest sense." YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT THE BARBIES, SOCIETY!! WWWRRROOONNNGGG!!