Unfortunate Irony “Hope” Ariel Dorfman

Essay 2 Unfortunate Irony In the poem hope by Ariel Dorfman the spend of jeering is what really sets and delivers the mood of this heart wrenching story. The author uses a very straight ahead approach in this poem because they be essentially just obese the story, adding loose rhythm and create verbally structure. The best way for the author to get the point of this tragedy across is with subtle but obscure irony. The mother and father finding merriment in this horrible event is the best example of irony.Irony in my opinion is what plunder really drive home the feeling of the author or lyricist and is a way to completely change the direction of feeling. In Hope, when the author says we couldnt find out anything else about him, its as if the authors implying they dont know where they are taking him, what they are doing with him, or if theyll ever see him again. The irony in this statement is that we assume that until completing the poem and rereading it, that possibly the p arents testament not get to see the child grow up.The author is speculating this early on that they will not see their child do all those things we hold up all been able to do and our parents have watched us do. Because they already know and approximatelywhat accept what is going to happen to the child. The author is completely advised of what kind of situation this has brought about. You see this when Ariel says, somebody tell me frankly what times are these, what kind of word, what res publica. Ariel knows, these are terrible times This type of irony really reminds of classic and contemporary country lyrics.The cardinal that comes to mind immediately is He Stopped Loving Her forthwith by George Jones. The story he tells is of a man thats hopelessly in love with a former lover that no interminable loves him. The opening line really sets the tone with Jones haunting twang, He said Ill love you process I die, She said youll forget in time. But as the story explains, he does nt. Jones lyrics are super painful when describing the setting of his home and how he has held on to items that are linked to her. He kept some letters by his bed, Dated 1962, He had underlined in red, Every single I love you. The rhythm right before the chorus and the chorus itself are what show the very unfortunate irony. The person telling the story explains how he went to see his friend and hes All dressed up to go away, First time Id seen him smile in years, the man had finally put up the end to his pain on his way to his own funeral. The chorus, He stopped loving her today, They placed a wreath upon his door, And soon theyll carry him away, He stopped loving her today. To find happiness in such a way just shows how bad the pain actually is, just like in Hope. To find any amount in joy due to horrific pain and no-countness, is very sad and it is understandable how the family of the child in Hope and the friends of the man in He Stopped Loving Her Today can find joy in the se extremely sad and difficult situations The ultimate display of irony in Hope is after Ariel acknowledges the circumstances and situation their family has found themselves in and how to deal with it. They say they accepted his voice, his screams, they say, this is very powerful and very disturbing. This leads to the ultimate question of this piece, What Im asking is how can it be that a fathers joy, a mothers joy, is knowing that they, that they are in time torturing their son? And the joy and comfort they find by knowing that if he is being hagridden that is electrostatic alive and that hush up leaves a window for hope. Which means that he was alive five months subsequently and our greatest hope will be to find out next year that theyre still torturing him eight months later, and he may might could still be alive. That is unfortunate irony, finding joy in a loved one being tortured because at least there is still hope they will one day be reunited with their child. Works Cited Dorfman, Ariel. Hope. Kirszner/Mandell Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing Jones, George. He Stopped Loving Her Today http//www. cowboylyrics. com/lyrics/jones-george/he-stopped-loving-her-today-18102. html