He's witty, scurrilous, rude,
satyrical and sometimes too clever by half.
Consequently, the heat brings to mind an Arcadian wilderness, in which shepherds and shepherdesses seek shade to escape the sun's searching rays, and the
satyrical quality of the horns that grow on Andolosia's, and then Agrippina's, head is emphasized.
In January 1689 Gould published a collection of poems called Poems Chiefly Consisting of Satyrs and
Satyrical Epistles.
Nylon, spangles, felt and glitter are pummelled, stitched and painted to create a series of
satyrical figures reminiscent of the Spitting Image puppets.
In subsequent scenes depicting stages of BeeBeeBee's re-education, the company deployed various styles of performance: a
satyrical cabaret in which jackals sang songs of the genocide; a parody of the UN r esponse in which a large-headed figure of General Romeo Dallaire appeared; and a pageant of large puppets figuring Christian myth.
Evidently not all of Welwood's readers appreciated parody, for Mercurius Reformatus also blazoned A Whip for the Weesel, subtitled "A Scourge for a
Satyrical Fopp," a Whiggish salvo in the dialogue over the Oath of Allegiance to the king and queen.(24)
Human Passions Delineated in above 120 Figures, Droll,
Satyrical, and Humourous: Designed in the Hogarthian Style, very useful for young Practitioners in Drawing.
To which Is Added a
Satyrical Poem on One who Had Injured his Memory.
Pink Flamingos is farcical, preposterous, in impossibly bad taste, satirical,
satyrical, wicked, grotesque, unbelievable, hilarious, and witty--all the good words.
Dennis replied with Reflections Critical and
Satyrical (1711), which mixed criticism of Pope's poem with a vicious personal attack upon Pope.
An even more telling instance is the well-documented feud with John Dennis.(5) This furious flurry of answer-words and counter-answer-words, beginning with Dennis's attack in Reflections Critical and
Satyrical, Upon a Late Rhapsody, Call'd, An Essay Upon Criticism, resembles guerrilla warfare more than dialogue; vet Pope appears to have taken some of Dennis's objections seriously.
