FEATURES OF SATIRICAL POETRY
FEATURES OF SATIRICAL POETRY:
Satire is basically the art of making someone or something look ridiculous, raising laughter in order to embarrass, humble or discredit its target.
- Satire at its heart is concerned with ethical reform. It attacks those institutions or individuals the satirist considers to be corrupted.
- It works to make the one at fault laughable and / or discreditable and thus bring social pressure on those who still engage in wrongdoing.
- It seeks a reform in public behavior, a boosting up of its audience's standards, or at the very least a wake-up call in an otherwise corrupt culture.
- Satire is often implicit and assumes readers who can pick up on its moral clues. It is not a preaching or lesson.
- Satire in general attacks the fool, the boor, the adulterer and the proud rather than specific persons.
- If it does attack some by name, rather than hoping to reform these persons, it seeks to warn the public against approving of them.
- Satire is witty, ironic, and often exaggerated. It uses extremes to bring its audience to a renewed awareness of its ethical and spiritual danger.
- Sometimes if the satirist is in danger for his or her attack, ambiguity, intimation and understatement can be used to help protect its author.
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