Parodies of Yeats’s “Second Coming” and Williams’s “This Is Just to Say” provides us with a little midweek levity.
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An Optimist Revises Yeats’s “Second Coming”
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They Oz You Up, Your Mandias
A double parody to lighten your mood—on “Ozymandias” and Larkin’s “This Be the Verse.”
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Newsom, Swift, and Parody’s Power
Gavin Newsom’s parodies of Donald Trump tweets are reminiscent of Swift’s attack on an 18th century fortuneteller in “The Bickerstaff Papers.”
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Humorless Twitter Boss as Malvolio
Elon Musk sparring with his Twitter critics is like Shakespeare’s Malvolio going after Feste.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
Check out Chaucer Doth Tweet, a twitter account dedicated to Middle English parodies. It’s very much in the spirit of Chaucer.
When News Resembles an Onion Headline
A recent case of an American man arrested for parodying a police department elicited a supportive brief from “The Onion.”
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