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This Be The Verse
Philip Larkin - Cynicism about family life
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound - Satire of modern culture
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot - Modernist angst with elements of dark humor
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll - Nonsense and whimsy
Daddy
Sylvia Plath - Dark humor on the paternal relationship
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost - Choices and individuality
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens - Impermanence and reality
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot - Disillusionment post World War I with sardonic undertones
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell - Carpe diem with a witty approach
The Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot - Spiritual emptiness with dry wit
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats - Chaos of the modern world with ironic prophecy
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning - Jealousy and manipulation with morbid humor
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas - The fight against death with passionate intensity
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats - Transcendence and mortality with bittersweet humor
Cinderella
Anne Sexton - Feminist critique on fairy tales with sardonic wit
The Flea
John Donne - Seduction and wit
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost - Contemplation and solitude, with quaint charm
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer - Baseball and American culture with comedic narrative
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer - Satiric commentary on English society
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou - Overcoming oppression with pride, contains humorous defiance
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