Euphemism Poems?

Question

Hi,Im just wondering if any of you could help me find poems that have Euphemism in it and could you also tell me which parts of the poem is a Euphemism.Thanks.

Thanks for your answer.
Also,Could anyone give me more poems that have euphemism in it...(the shorter the poem the better it would be)Thanks.

Answer 1

A euphemism is a word or series of words which replaces sad, unpleasant or shocking ideas with softer and nicer expressions. For instance: “departure from life” is a euphemism for “death”.
Hence, you've got to be versed in euphemisms well to identify them in these poems:

1.To be Dominated by another
The **** that lives within is ready to break free,
to fulfill every fantasy, every want and every need.
To hell with the conscience and the price that I may pay.



2. Battle scars
My body was the battlefield that bore the scars of life,
stretch marks, bruises, aches and pains, even taken to the knife.
Battle scars will fade, but never go away, the pain it took to make.

3. The storm
Standing on the porch
with it's white railing
the clouds are approaching
on the horizon they billow up
as they move closer to me
in the air I feel the charge
a crackle in the distance

Try also the poems of Charles Baudelaire :

Prodigal, debaucher, voluptuary, opium addict, convicted blasphemer and offender of public morals, Charles Baudelaire is considered one of the two or three greatest French poets, and is assuredly the most widely read around the world. Born in Paris in 1821, he died there forty-six miserable years later, in that fabulous city he both loved and hated -- and turned to so often in his writings -- died of syphilis in his mother's arms, having squandered his inheritance, drowning in debt, moving from one squalid furnished room to another, one step ahead of the landlord and his creditors, scorned by those he scorned, a failure in his own eyes and to the smug, stuffy, self-righteous bourgeoisie he so loathed.

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Answer 2

Euphemism In Poetry

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Euphemism Poems?
Hi,Im just wondering if any of you could help me find poems that have Euphemism in it and could you also tell me which parts of the poem is a Euphemism.Thanks.

Answer 4

philip larkin's poem 'dockery and son' has a very powerful use of euphemism in the last lines.

when at the end of the poem larkin writes:

life is first boredom, and then fear;
whether or not you use it, it goes,
and leaves what something hidden from you chose,
and age, and then the only end of age.

'the only end of age' is a euphemism for 'death'.

when you wonder why larkin uses a euphemism here, you quickly realise that larkin is so personally afraid of death that he dare not even speak its name. (larkin really was terrified of dying). this makes the euphemism have the opposite effect from a normal euphemism. instead of making 'death' less frightening, it makes it more.