John Updikes "Ex-Basketball Player" (1958) I think is a narrative poem with cosmic or tragic irony. The basketball player "He was good, in fact he was the best" never went beyond high school basketball. the way the poem reads implies the writer believed the Ex-basketball player could have been somebody. He revels in the heroic past deeds of the ex-basketball player, but then goes on to describe the mundane aspects of his life as a gas station attendent.
The tone was neutral, but it contained hints of unfulfilled expectation.
I have read quite a few of these poems and wonder if reading poetry will ever come easy for me.
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