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

Will Dockery wrote:
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George J. Dance wrote:

General-Zod 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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Cool, second read

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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; and the one example of
rhyme it cited was Ogden Nash.

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Be that as it may, I'm glad to have his poetry on the blog. This debut
is a bit out of the ordinary -- it reads like a love poem he dashed off
to his wife, whether he did or whether he designed it that way (probably
the latter, since his wife was born in March).

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And the uniqueness of this poem in relation to most others by Nash makes
it a particular favorite for me.

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Seconded, and agreed upon...