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“irony”
by louis untermeyer

why are the things that have no death
the ones with neither sight nor breath!
eternity is thrust upon
a bit of earth, a senseless stone.
a grain of dust, a casual clod
receives the greatest gift of god.
a pebble in the roadway lies—
it never dies.

the grass our fathers cut away
is growing on their graves today;
the tiniest brooks that scarcely flow
eternally will come and go.
there is no kind of death to kill
the sands that lie so meek and still. .
but man is great and strong and wise—
and so he dies.

source: untermeyer, louis. “irony.” the new poetry: an anthology of the twentieth century. eds. harriet monroe and alice corbin henderson. new york: macmillan, 1936. poetry foundation. web. 6 july 2011.

identify the key details that contribute to the irony in the poem.

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Based on the given poem above entitled "Irony" by Louis Untermeyer, the key details that contribute to the irony in the poem are the following: *The things that are considered no death, are the ones are not breathing or living. *Even a pebble lies in a roadway, still it never experiences death. *No matter how grasses are cut, they still grow in the same place. *Brooks, even though its flow is not that much, still you can see it come and go. *Despite all these things that are not living, they do not fade nor die. But since a human is strong and wise, makes it the reason why it dies.

Answer from: connorgking

The irony in Louis Untermeyer's poem is given by the fact that those things that have no awareness of themselves, like pebbles and dust or sand and streams, live forever. Because that which is not alive cannot die.

On the contrary, man, who is strong and intelligente, who is aware of himself and all the things around him and wants to live forever, eventually dies.

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a biography is a genre that mainly accounts somebody's life and that is written by somebody else. this genre supports sonia nazario's desire to share enrique's life because she can fully inform readers of his entire emotional journey.

in a biography, an author can share the readers almost everything about a person's life, or just one key event or personal aspect the author is interested in telling, like in this specific case in which sonia nazario is centered in enrique's emotional journey.

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the excerpt from chapter 2 of "animal farm", by george orwell that is an example of foreshadowing is "these three (snowball, napoleon, and squealer) had elaborated old major's teachings into a complete system of thought to which they gave the name of animalism." animal farm is an allegory of how czarist russia developed into communist russia with all its corruption. old major's teachings represent marx's theories turned into communism, animalism, by the three pigs. this foreshadows the oppression and corruption that will follow this revolt.

Anybody? which excerpt from chapter 2 animal farm is an example of foreshadowing?

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