02-24-2022, 10:43 AM
The above poem:
There are three levels of irony:
The title, the quote and the body of the poem.
Using irony, no irony, beyond irony.
Beyond irony includes irony and everything else.
This is the case, strictly, with William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Irony is a plaything in poems like these. And completely serious. And beyond serious, because serious is subject to humor.
There are three levels of irony:
The title, the quote and the body of the poem.
Using irony, no irony, beyond irony.
Beyond irony includes irony and everything else.
This is the case, strictly, with William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Irony is a plaything in poems like these. And completely serious. And beyond serious, because serious is subject to humor.