Limericks are supposed to be funny, satirical and fun to write. I think, generally, they are. It’s fascinating to get hooked on writing limerick poetry when I mean something and I want to hide the hidden meaning. As well, to dodge getting hit.
Here’s the first stanza. I’ll have a go with this one about what’s going on in my head.
Oh, what torment of choice
Caught between the Liar and the Voice
Odyssey’s Scylla, the monster,
Seizes and sucks brains to conquer.
Oh, Dame Scylla, that isn’t fair and nice!
That’s how political satire get around in the Internet, get away with it and win an audience. While I admire these get-it audience who can take the joke in good humor. In the good ol’ days, satire on politics to convey a message was widely heard, discussed and are open for stirring amusing debates.
‘You, Deplorable Voice!”, the Dame Scylla’s epithet
Six-headed monster, she is, what does one expect?
On Scylla’s shame and peril
The Voice will trump Dame of Feral.
Why, oh, why isn’t Scylla caught in the Dragnet, yet?
I can dodge a hot topic with politics without appearing dodgy like scaredy-cat. Without appearing snotty to my liberal side of totalitarian ideas that can’t take a joke. Hey, it’s fun to lime a rick in this kind of guessing game (I just made up that word).
Voice on ship, wake up! You can’t sleep!
No longer shall you deplore in the deep.
Darn it! Crew in whirlpool sail
Scylla’s lair shan’t prevail
Awake the Ship, go buck up, don’t you flip.
This limerick poetry looks superfluous. But I’m really over the top with this full a’ nonsense. The characters are from Homer’s Odyssey‘s monster, Scylla. And myself, the Voice. The Ship is the Crew where I’m in.
I’m done for now. Thanks for being game!
Copyright by WYZ’DAT? 2016
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Yes, writing satirical poem is very difficult far a poet but there are many poets who have written political satires in the history of English literature. As Pope wrote a political Satire as The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock is one of the most famous English-language examples of the mock-epic. Published in its first version in 1712, when Pope was only 23 years old, the poem served to forge his reputation as a poet and remains his most frequently studied work.
The inspiration for the poem was an actual incident among Pope’s acquaintances in which Robert, Lord Petre, cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair, and the young people’s families fell into strife as a result. John Caryll, another member of this same circle of prominent Roman Catholics, asked Pope to write a light poem that would put the episode into a humorous perspective and reconcile the two families.
The poem was originally published in a shorter version, which Pope later revised. In this later version he added the “machinery,” the retinue of supernaturals who influence the action as well as the moral of the tale.
Dryden the poet is best known today as a satirist, although he wrote only two great original satires, Mac Flecknoe (1682) and The Medall (1682). His most famous poem, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), while it contains several brilliant satiric portraits, unlike satire comes to a final resolution, albeit tragic for both David and his son. Dryden's other great poems— Annus Mirabilis (1667),
Religio Laici (1682), The Hind and the Panther (1687), Anne Killigrew (1686), Alexander's Feast (1697), and "To My Honour'd Kinsman" (1700)—are not satires either. And he contributed a wonderful body of occasional poems: panegyrics, odes, elegies, prologues, and epilogues.
Writing satire is a tough job for any writer of any age. A few satirical writers have been on earth.
Dryden was dry (:-D) until he started writing political satires. He gained more readership since.