Index of Parodies

Index of authors and works parodied. To make the index more useful, the definition of “parody” is broad. Most of the parodies are partial. “Style parodies” are of course under author only. 69 of the 153 poems are indexed here.

Authors Parodied

Alfred Tennyson Ask Not For Whom the Thunder Rolls That Big a Star Algernon Charles Swinburne Metazoans are Heterotrophic Annie Lennox Sweet Dreams anonymous Fly to Mars Green Cheese Jesus Dance O Brexit Deal Peas with Shaving Cream The Poetry ABC Song Yankee-Doodle Branding Anthony Johnson Oompa Loompa Land Located in North Korea Benny Bell Peas with Shaving Cream Bill Danoff Take Me Home, Taxi Ride Bob Dylan Evil Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue Evil Bob Dylan - The Carpet’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken Bruce Johnston I Write the Ads Burma Shave Myanmar Shave Christopher Marlowe Make Me a Martian David A. Stewart Sweet Dreams David Jackson The No Yes Song Edna St. Vincent Millay My Candle Edward FitzGerald Moving Van Elias Lönnrot Kalevala Emily Dickinson 1463.5 Deep Learning Emily Dickinson Summarized General Advice to Miscreants Near-Waking Experience Emma Lazarus The New Democracy Ezra Pound Salutation to a Previous Generation Gerard Manley Hopkins Obstruction of Justice Gerome Ragni The Age is Hilarious Homer as translated by Robert Fitzgerald Achilles and Aeneas Hoyt Axton The No Yes Song J.A. Seazer Reality Star Adultery J.R.R. Tolkien The One Count James Lord Pierpont Santa’s Sleigh Ride at 1000 km/s James Rado The Age is Hilarious Jane Taylor Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Masters’ Works John Denver Take Me Home, Taxi Ride John Donne Death, Be Not Sad John Keats Beauty Has Teeth John Lennon Loosening the Sky U.N. Resolution John Masefield Capitol Fever Worldship Leslie Bricusse Oompa Loompa Land Located in North Korea Lewis Carroll Neutron Bomb Matthew Arnold The Sink Is Full Mother Goose Jack and Jill The Political Promise Saint Valentine Tunisia Revolution What Really Makes the World Go Around What They Do to Food Before Taking its Picture Ogden Nash Ninety-Nine Years of Ogden Nash Ogden Nash Weekly World News Omar Khayyam Moving Van oral tradition Kalevala Paul McCartney Loosening the Sky U.N. Resolution Rainer Maria Rilke Pedestrian Elegy Robert Frost End in Trash Sarah McLachlan Arc of the Ankle T.S. Eliot The Placing of Blame Taffy Nivert Take Me Home, Taxi Ride Tom Lehrer Perdition W.B. Yeats Cupertino Eating Song The Second Vulture William Blake Building Jerusalem Where it Is Now Walk Off William Carlos Williams Homeland Security Advisory System William Cowper Net Work William Shakespeare The Closest Full Moon Since The Last Time This Happened The Correct Way to Double the Toil and Trouble Miranda on Presidents

Titles Parodied

The ABC Song (anonymous) The Poetry ABC Song The Age of Aquarius (James Rado, Gerome Ragni) The Age is Hilarious Angel (Sarah McLachlan) Arc of the Ankle Crossing the Bar (Alfred Tennyson) That Big a Star Dance, Dance, Sisters Dance (anonymous) Jesus Dance Demut [humility] (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) The Masters’ Works Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold) The Sink Is Full Drinking Song (W.B. Yeats) Eating Song Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke) Pedestrian Elegy Fire and Ice (Robert Frost) End in Trash First Fig (Edna St. Vincent Millay) My Candle A Garden of Proserpine (Algernon Charles Swinburne) Metazoans are Heterotrophic God Moves in a Mysterious Way (William Cowper) Net Work God’s Grandeur (Gerard Manley Hopkins) Obstruction of Justice Greensleeves (anonymous) Green Cheese Holy Sonnet X (Death, Be Not Proud) (John Donne) Death, Be Not Sad How Doth the Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll) Neutron Bomb Humpty Dumpty (Mother Goose) What They Do to Food Before Taking its Picture I Eat My Peas With Honey (anonymous) Peas with Shaving Cream I Write the Songs (Bruce Johnston) I Write the Ads If You’re Happy and You Know It (anonymous) Fly to Mars The Iliad (Homer as translated by Robert Fitzgerald) Achilles and Aeneas It was not Death (Emily Dickinson) Deep Learning Jack and Jill (Mother Goose) Jack and Jill Jerusalem (William Blake) Building Jerusalem Where it Is Now Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpont) Santa’s Sleigh Ride at 1000 km/s Just Lost When I Was Saved (Emily Dickinson) Near-Waking Experience Kalevala (Elias Lönnrot, oral tradition) Kalevala Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Loosening the Sky Macbeth (William Shakespeare) The Closest Full Moon Since The Last Time This Happened The Correct Way to Double the Toil and Trouble Mary Had a Little Lamb (Mother Goose) The Political Promise Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau (William Blake) Walk Off The Naming of Cats (T.S. Eliot) The Placing of Blame The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus) The New Democracy The No No Song (Hoyt Axton, David Jackson) The No Yes Song O Christmas Tree (anonymous) O Brexit Deal Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats) Beauty Has Teeth On Those That Hated “The Playboy of the Western World” (W.B. Yeats) Cupertino Oompa Loompa Song (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Johnson) Oompa Loompa Land Located in North Korea Pollution (Tom Lehrer) Perdition The Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams) Homeland Security Advisory System Ring Poem (J.R.R. Tolkien) The One Count Roses Are Red (Mother Goose) Saint Valentine What Really Makes the World Go Around A Route of Evanescence (Emily Dickinson) 1463.5 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald, Omar Khayyam) Moving Van Salutation (Ezra Pound) Salutation to a Previous Generation Sea Fever (John Masefield) Capitol Fever Worldship The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats) The Second Vulture Shaving Cream (Benny Bell) Peas with Shaving Cream Sing a Song of Sixpence (Mother Goose) Tunisia Revolution The Splendor Falls (Alfred Tennyson) Ask Not For Whom the Thunder Rolls Split the Lark (Emily Dickinson) General Advice to Miscreants Sweet dreams (are made of this) (Annie Lennox, David A. Stewart) Sweet Dreams Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver, Taffy Nivert, Bill Danoff) Take Me Home, Taxi Ride Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan) Evil Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue The Tempest (William Shakespeare) Miranda on Presidents The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe) Make Me a Martian Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Jane Taylor) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Virtual Star Embryology (バーチャルスター発生学) (J.A. Seazer) Reality Star Adultery When the Ship Comes In (Bob Dylan) Evil Bob Dylan - The Carpet’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken Yankee Doodle (anonymous) Yankee-Doodle Branding You Say You Want a Revolution (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) U.N. Resolution