-This poem by Louise Gluck "Life is a nice Place", has a very ironic tone. Gluck describes this lovely place knows as life and describes the music, people and love. He has the reader believing that this would indeed be a nice place to be, but when the reader discovers how the the first and final lines of the poem fit together they automatically realize his sarcasm. "Life is a nice place.../ to visit. But I wouldn't live there." The reader then can tell that for Gluck live is more suitable as a vacation rather that a lifestyle.

-Gluck creates irony in the poem by placing certain lines in strategic places. So therefore in order to mock the strategy he uses I would place the lines in my poem in a place that would create irony (or whatever other tone I was trying to create) without actually making the diction ironic, but instead almost disputing what I had said earlier in the poem.