<em>Laughter can play a helpful role in MANY things, especially medical treatment. The reason it plays such a helpful role is because it makes people feel more happy and tends to take someone's mind off of what is going on around them. Once laughter is applied during a medical treatment, it is done to make someone feel less worried about what could be going on around them or how the treatment may go. This is commonly used by surgeons and kemo-therapy doctors when a patient is worried about what may happen.</em>
<em>Hope this helps.</em>
<em>-Northstar</em>
Essentially the poem is about triumph over adversity. It is about strength and courage, and fortitude. It is about not accepting one's vulnerability in the face of domination. And basically it is about joining together with one voice and saying, we will overcome!
The hyperbole 'ice-hard' has the effect of increasing how good Orpheus's music sounded, because it portrays Hades as being cold and unmoving, yet still Orpheus was able to break through that to make Hades feel emotion
