(for Ogden Nash)
What if Warren Buffet were a Muppet
Who had to rough it
In a trash can dim lit where he would stuff it, —
All, that is, that he could fit —
A bottomless pit,
With nowhere to sit?
(Would anyone give a ... whit?)
posted to Read Write Poem prompt #75: rhyme time?
Wonderful rhyming!
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clever rhymes and a great tribute to ogden nash.
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ReplyDeleteOn recently reading Ogden Nash, I was struck by how much it is like rap music today. Turns out, Robert Pinsky wrote something about this in 2006:
Robert Pinsky* can do the poetic analysis better than me / he's a professor of poetry!* (a US Poet Laureate back in Clinton's days)
Formally, this example relies on Nash's often repeated trick: two prolonged, wandering and often prosy lines creating a resourceful or outrageous couplet rhyme. As with rap music, the point is partly a joke on the English language, with its relative poverty of rhymes: The many different roots of our mongrel language -- Germanic, Norman French, Latin, other inventions and imports like "barbecue" and "googol" -- give it a rich vocabulary of synonyms but leave it with relatively few rhymes compared with Italian or French. Sometimes rap performance, like Nash's poetry, dramatizes the limits and resources of English in order to express a laughing frustration.Washington Post
nicely done Mr Thrift
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think Nash would like this. It's great: Buffet as Oscar the Grouch! Oh, thanks for the bit from Pinsky. I think he's right.
ReplyDeleteI'm an Ogden Nash fan, too. Warren Buffet as a Muppet...what fun!
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