Question

“Irony”
by Louis Untermeyer

Why are the things that have no death
The ones with neither sight nor breath!
Eternity is thrust upon
A bit of earth, a senseless stone.
A grain of dust, a casual clod
Receives the greatest gift of God.
A pebble in the roadway lies—
It never dies.

The grass our fathers cut away
Is growing on their graves today;
The tiniest brooks that scarcely flow
Eternally will come and go.
There is no kind of death to kill
The sands that lie so meek and still. . . .
But Man is great and strong and wise—
And so he dies.

Source: Untermeyer, Louis. “Irony.” The New Poetry: An Anthology of the Twentieth Century. Eds. Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Poetry Foundation. Web. 6 July 2011.



Identify the key details that contribute to the irony in the poem.

Answer 1

Answer:

here the irony is that the life is precious for every human being and he should use his all intellectual power to create something new so after death his work may lead the new generation.