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On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 6:14:34 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-05-02 6:56 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
> > General-Zod wrote:
> >> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>
> >>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >
> >>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
> >>> [...]
> >>> April golden, April cloudy,
> >>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
> >>> [...]
> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
> >>>
> >
> >> Cool, second read
> >
> >
> > Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.
> 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;

What an appallingly horrid little work that must have been.

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

One need look no farther to understand why poetry has become a dead language and an obsolete art form.

And, yes -- I would consign that book to be burned along with Stinky George's and Dirty Mike's rubbers.


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