The Ogre does what ogres can,
 Deeds quite impossible for Man,
 But one prize is beyond his reach:
 The Ogre cannot master speech.

 About a subjugated plain,
 Among it's desperate and slain,
 The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
 While drivel gushes from his lips.

This poem by Auden is one of the nicest put-downs I have read. I’d love to say this to a few people, except that they wouldn’t even understand what I was saying.

— Zenobia

Martin adds

The poem’s title refers to the Communist invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, to quash Dubcek’s nascent series of reforms. See http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1998/08/F.RUhtml for more background on the invasion. Auden’s Ogre was a (fairly transparent) symbol of Stalin and his forces, but, as Zenobia observes, the type is common even today.