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Epigrams can be hard to find because they have a very broad
definition. What one person considers an epigram, another may
consider an elegy, poem, or perhaps even a song.
The most basic definition of an epigram is a brief, clever, and
memorable statement. Some of them are formulated with satirical
purposes in mind, and others are purposely meant to be
confusing.
For example, John Donne uses an epigram in his poem "Hero and
Leander" when he writes:"Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one
groundBoth whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd."
While there is certainly no apparent humor in this poem, there
is a contradiction. How could two people die by both fire and
water? Examining the other uses and purposes of epigrams helps to
answer that question.