Re: PPB: Always Marry an April Girl / Ogden Nash

Will Dockery wrote:

Michael Pendragon wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

Michael Pendragon wrote:

George J. Dance wrote:

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Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:

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Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
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April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
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https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
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Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.

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Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the

last

half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to

verse.

First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it

pontificated

that rhyme was good only for humorous effect;

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What an appallingly horrid little work that must have been.

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And a textbook, yet (implying that it was actually taught in

classrooms).

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One need look no farther to understand why poetry has become a dead

language and an obsolete art form.

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And, yes -- I would consign that book to be burned along with

Your burn list includes some of the best poets:
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Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
Jack Kerouac

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I don't see any poets on that list

Thus, your ignorance of certain forms of poetry is confirmed.

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I'm familiar with all of their writings

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You've read, what, one paragraph of Jack Kerouac?

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That's not very familiar.

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Penhead is a DELUSIONAL FOOL...!
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"With a tear in his eye."