<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0017 The ironic, the sarcastic, the sardonic...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">These weapons of literary abuse<br>so prevalent in the 17th and 18th century days<br>of literary gents in coffee-houses<br>have fallen into desuetude<br>these amicable days</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but for the sake of Eng. Lit. studies<br>it might be useful<br>to run them through: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">they have Greek roots<br>which we should know; it keeps them tidy<br>in the first-aid box of the literary mind: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there’s irony: that’s from the Greek<br>meaning ‘simulated innocence’; <br>in practice, saying the opposite<br>of what you mean; the Greeks<br>used it in tragedy – the man who says all’s fine and dandy<br>as the black cloud of disaster gathers; <br>we use it more for humour; as in <br>‘ you’re a right barrel of laughs, Mona..’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then there’s sarcasm: in Greek, wow, <br>to tear the flesh; gnash the teeth, <br>or simply to speak bitterly; <br>using irony (as above) , to express contempt: <br>‘that meant to be funny, then…? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the sardonic: Homer used it<br>to describe bitter, mocking laughter, <br>which for undisclosed reasons<br>was associated with the people of Sardinia..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine, perhaps, a tinful <br>of no-head-to-no-tail sardines<br>able to read their label..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460453" data-title="0017 The ironic, the sarcastic, the sardonic... de Michael Shepherd" data-description="These weapons of literary abuse so prevalent in the 17th and 18th century days of literary gents in coffee-houses have fallen into desuetude these amicable days but for the sake of Eng. Lit. studies it might be useful to run them through: they ..."></div> </div> </div>

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