<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576831" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Irony of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Irony is a literary or rhetorical device.<br>The essayist Henry Watson Fowler wrote: <br>“any definition of irony<br>—though hundreds might be given, <br>and very few of them would be accepted—<br>must include this, <br>that the surface meaning <br>and the underlying meaning of <br>what is said are not the same.' <br>He left out that any definition of <br>Irony must include that it is cruel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never understood <br>The meaning of irony<br>Or how cruel it can be, <br>Until you told me, <br>That though you may love me, <br>You find it difficult to <br>Hear the words<br>“I love you” from me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You see, some three years ago<br>You jokingly said<br>'I love you' to me, <br>And I begged you <br>Never to utter those words again. <br>Not because I did not want to hear them, <br>But because they were difficult for me.<br>They carried heart-felt consequences<br>That I did not want to face.<br>So, I shut out my heart and followed my head.<br>And in life filled with so many regrets, <br>It was the biggest mistake I ever made. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The irony, <br>After some thousand days have past, <br>You uttered the same <br>Imprudent sentiment to me.<br>This sentiment is the definition of irony –<br>The surface meaning <br>And underlying meaning are not the same.<br>Because although I asked you not to say<br>“I love you”, <br>It is all I wanted to hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cruelty, <br>That now that heaven has at last<br>Blessed, cursed me with<br>Clarity of the heart, <br>And I want to say what I mean<br>With no different underlying sentiment, <br>You tell me you do not<br>Want to hear these words from me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the most ironic and cruelest part, <br>Will be, <br>If you make the same mistake I made<br>And keep from me what is within your heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hal+Caufield">Hal Caufield</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=576831" data-title="The Irony of Love de Hal Caufield" data-description="Irony is a literary or rhetorical device. The essayist Henry Watson Fowler wrote: “any definition of irony —though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted— must include this, that the surface meaning and the under..."></div> </div> </div>

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