Poetry at the Botom - Book Three

"I'm having a trouble balancing these two things. He's using poetry as an ironic form, just like he's using this vague biblical stuff as an irony form," says seth. "But i don't know if the irony entirely undermines, you know, that's the funny thing about ironies." 'This is complicated by the, i mean, really, as seth was getting at, this is prose that we're reading,' she adds.