What type of utensil that is frequently used in nonsense poetry first appeared in Edward Lear's best-known poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
"mother the cat died falling from a tall tree.This made the Owl become a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness. The money is all spent but the Owl still sings to the original guitar. The Owl and the Pussycat ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets"". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term ""runcible"", used for the phrase"
"including an International Owl and Pussycat Day on his birth anniversary. In 1846 Lear published "","" a volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularize the form and the genre of literary nonsense. In 1871 he published ""Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets"", which included his most famous nonsense song, ""The Owl and the Pussycat,"" which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. Many other works followed. Lear's nonsense books were quite popular during his lifetime, but a rumour developed that ""Edward Lear"" was merely a pseudonym, and the books'"
"found in ""Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"" by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word ""jabberwocky"" is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literary nonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways. Its best-known exponent is Edward Lear, author of ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme ""Hey Diddle Diddle"" could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works"
"from a combination of both sources. Though not the first to write this hybrid kind of nonsense, Edward Lear developed and popularized it in his many limericks (starting with ""A Book of Nonsense"", 1846) and other famous texts such as ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", ""The Dong with a Luminous Nose,"" """" and ""The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World"". Lewis Carroll continued this trend, making literary nonsense a worldwide phenomenon with ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) and ""Through the Looking-Glass"" (1871). Carroll's poem ""Jabberwocky"", which appears in the latter book, is often considered quintessential"
"Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems,"
"played the accordion, flute, and guitar. He composed music for many Romantic and Victorian poems, but was known mostly for his many musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. He published four settings in 1853, five in 1859, and three in 1860. Lear's were the only musical settings that Tennyson approved of. Lear also composed music for many of his nonsense songs, including ""The Owl and the Pussy-cat,"" but only two of the scores have survived, the music for ""The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò"" and ""The Pelican Chorus"". While he never played professionally, he did perform his own nonsense songs and his"
"at Swindon University) is named after the utensil with which The Owl and the Pussycat dine on ""mince and slices of quince"" in a nonsense rhyme by Edward Lear. Detective Inspector Oswald Mandias of Yorkshire CID (the policeman investigating the theft of the Jane Eyre manuscript from the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth) is named after Ozymandias, the eponymous subject of Shelley's 1818 sonnet. The head of JurisFiction. During the events of ""Lost in a Good Book"" and ""The Well of Lost Plots"", this position is filled by an unnamed individual who is only ever referred to by his title."
"The Scroobious Pip ""The Scroobious Pip"" is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear at the time of his death in 1888. The poem tells of a fanciful animal of unknown taxonomy known only as ""the Scroobious Pip"" and the fruitless attempts of the other animals of the world to classify it. ""The Scroobious Pip"" was left unfinished by Lear in 1872. It was not published until 1935 in a collectors edition, of which 950 copies were produced. In 1968, it was completed by American poet Ogden Nash, who was asked to finish the poem. Illustrations by Nancy"
"Ireland sometimes particularly to the Maigue Poets, and may derive from an earlier form of nonsense verse parlour game that traditionally included a refrain that included ""Will [or won't] you come (up) to Limerick?"" Until recently, the first known usage in England was from 1898 (""New English Dictionary"") and in the United States from 1902, but in recent years several earlier examples have been documented, the earliest being an 1880 reference, in a Saint John, New Brunswick newspaper, to an apparently well-known tune, The limerick form was popularized by Edward Lear in his first ""Book of Nonsense"" (1846) and a"
"Nonsense verse Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is whimsical and humorous in tone and employs some of the techniques of nonsense literature. Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for straightforward humour, rather than having a nonsensical effect. Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Sukumar Ray, Edward Gorey, Colin West, Dr. Seuss, and Spike Milligan. The Martian Poets and Ivor Cutler are considered by some to be in"
"Foss (cat) Foss (c. 1873 – November 1887), formally named Aderphos, was the pet cat of Edward Lear, the 19th-century author, illustrator, and poet. A stumpy-tailed, portly, and unattractive tabby cat, he was a favourite of Lear's and played an important role as a companion in the poet's lonely later years. Foss is mentioned frequently in Lear's correspondence and makes an appearance in his illustrations and at least one poem. Foss is said to have been the inspiration for the pussycat in Lear's illustrations for his poem ""The Owl and the Pussycat"". The funeral that Lear provided for Foss, which"
"later work, ""More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc"". (1872). Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly considered nonsense literature. It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a variant of the first line ending in the same word, but with slight differences that create a nonsensical, circular effect. The humour is not in the ""punch line"" ending but rather in the tension between meaning and its lack. The following is an example of one of Edward Lear's limericks. Lear's limericks were often typeset"
"true author was the man to whom Lear had dedicated the works, his patron the Earl of Derby. Promoters of this rumour offered as evidence that both men were named Edward, and that ""Lear"" is an anagram of ""Earl."" Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both real and imaginary. A stuffed rhinoceros becomes a ""diaphanous doorscraper."" A ""blue Boss-Woss"" plunges into ""a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, quadrangular, circular depth of soft mud."" His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. One of his most famous verbal inventions, the"
"the nonsense tradition. In some cases, the humor of nonsense verse is based on the incompatibility of phrases which make grammatical sense but semantic nonsense at least in certain interpretations, as in the traditional: Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech. The first verse of Lewis Carroll's ""Jabberwocky"" illustrates"
"varying from three feet (""Dolores"") to eight feet (""March: An Ode""). The anapaest's most common role in English verse is as a comic metre: the foot of the limerick, of Lewis Carroll's poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"", Edward Lear's nonsense poems, T. S. Eliot's ""Book of Practical Cats"", a number of Dr. Seuss stories, and innumerable other examples. Anapaest An anapaest (; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consists"
"The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable language for"
"The Floure and the Leafe The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470. During the 17th, 18th, and most of the 19th century it was mistakenly believed to be the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was generally considered to be one of his finest poems. The name of the author is not known but the poem presents itself as the work of a woman, and some critics are inclined to take this at face value. The poet was certainly well-read, there being a number of echoes of"
"the connection being that a runcible spoon's cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. ""The Straight Dope"" adds that ""modern students of runciosity"" link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective ""rouncival"", meaning ""gigantic"", also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. The whimsical feel of the word ""runcible"" has led to its appearance in diverse arenas. Runcible ""Runcible"" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The"
"years Derek Pearsall has produced two editions of ""The Floure and the Leafe"", and re-examined the poem's historical context but relatively few critics have published studies of it, and, as Kathleen Formi has noted, ""To my knowledge, the poem has not been anthologized."" The Floure and the Leafe The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470. During the 17th, 18th, and most of the 19th century it was mistakenly believed to be the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was generally considered to be one of his finest"
"is limited. The Owl and the Nightingale The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest). Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in England, but English was still widespread and recognized as an acceptable"
"Ekholm Burkert were also added in 1968. Harvard University Press published ""Teapots And Quails"", a small book of Lear's poetry that includes ""The Scroobious Pip"". The poem's title was adopted as the stage name of a UK hip hop performance artist, Scroobius Pip, who is one half of the duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip. The Scroobious Pip ""The Scroobious Pip"" is a nonsense verse poem left unfinished by Edward Lear at the time of his death in 1888. The poem tells of a fanciful animal of unknown taxonomy known only as ""the Scroobious Pip"" and the fruitless attempts"
"word ""stumbled"", as in Sam fell onto the drunk side and stumbled on a girl. However, not all nonsense verse relies on word play. Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations. For instance, Edward Lear's poem, ""The Jumblies"" has a comprehensible chorus: However, the significance of the color of their heads and hands is not apparent and the verse appears to be nonsense. Some nonsense verse simply presents contradictory or impossible scenarios in a matter-of-fact tone, like this example from Brian P. Cleary's ""Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry"" (Millbrook Press, 2004): Likewise, a poem sometimes attributed to Christopher Isherwood and first found"
"but there is little doubt that it was ""The Floure and the Leafe"". The poem was first published in 1598 in Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's works, and there are reasons for thinking that it was printed from a faulty transcript of the separated Longleat pages. In the absence of any ancient manuscript of the poem Speght's book is the only authority for the text. For nearly 300 years after Speght's edition it was almost universally accepted that ""The Floure and the Leafe"" was the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. John Dryden was the first major writer to pick out ""The"
"his preface to the Lyrical Ballads. There is, first and foremost, the use of what Wordsworth calls “the language really used by men.” 3. The Solitary Reaper https://diariummedia.wordpress.com/2018/06/30/118/ The Solitary Reaper ""The Solitary Reaper"" is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. '""The Solitary Reaper is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-""Lyrical Ballads"" lyrics"". The words of the reaper's song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his"
"literary form of debate poetry. A small number of debate poems of questionable importance were produced during the Renaissance, and thus the debate poem is primarily a medieval phenomenon. Two well-known works in which the animals carry on intellectual debates are The Owl and the Nightingale (13th century), involving a dispute between two birds quarreling over who is more useful to man, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls (1382?). In the former the argument is loud and vindictive, with the nightingale condescendingly insulting the owl for having a toneless and depressing singing voice; the owl defends her voice as warning"
"Blake's ""The Tiger"" and Rudyard Kipling's ""A Smuggler's Song"": ""Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark"". Though agreeing that the metre is ""almost indispensable for comic purposes"", the editors also selected serious examples, by among others Matthew Prior, Isaac Watts and Robert Browning – ""The Lost Leader"": ""Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat"". Nonetheless the poet most represented in this section is Edward Lear, with ""The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"", ""The Quangle Wangle's Hat"" and ""How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear"". In their introduction to this section,"
"""the"" in middle and early modern English, presumably to create a pseudo-archaic impression. The rest of the poem was written during Carroll's stay with relatives at Whitburn, near Sunderland. The story may have been partly inspired by the local Sunderland area legend of the Lambton Worm, and the tale of the Sockburn Worm while writing in Croft on Tees and Whitburn in Sockburn. The concept of nonsense verse was not original to Carroll, who would have known of chapbooks such as ""The World Turned Upside Down"" and stories such as ""The Great Panjandrum"". Nonsense existed in Shakespeare's work and was"
"besmirched by duty, or any other thorn the rose may bear. The Lilly The Lilly is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat’ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. The Rose, which is a symbol of love and beauty, puts forth a flaw or a thorn. The humble sheep also calls to attention its horn or flaw. The Lilly, however,"
"Lewis Chessmen from northern Europe are carved from walrus ivory. Because of its distinctive appearance, great bulk, and immediately recognizable whiskers and tusks, the walrus also appears in the popular cultures of peoples with little direct experience with the animal, particularly in English children's literature. Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" that appears in his 1871 book ""Through the Looking-Glass"". In the poem, the eponymous antiheroes use trickery to consume a great number of oysters. Although Carroll accurately portrays the biological walrus's appetite for bivalve mollusks, oysters, primarily nearshore and intertidal"
"The Flea (poem) ""The Flea"" is an erotic metaphysical poem (first published posthumously in 1633) by John Donne (1572–1631). The exact date of its composition is unknown. The poem uses the conceit of a flea, which has sucked blood from the male speaker and his female lover, to serve as an extended metaphor for the relationship between them. The speaker tries to convince a lady to sleep with him, arguing that if their blood mingling in the flea is innocent, then sexual mingling would also be innocent. His argument hinges on the belief that bodily fluids mix during sexual intercourse."
"The Mower The Mower is a 1979 poem by British poet Philip Larkin, written on 12 June 1979. It was first published in ""Humberside"", the Hull Literary Club magazine, in Autumn 1979. The poem describes a moment when the speaker accidentally killed a hedgehog with his lawn mower while mowing his lawn. Author Maeve Brennan recalled an earlier incident in which Larkin had deliberately killed a hedgehog with his car, and his guilt about it. She linked that incident with the later poem. Author Sisir Kumar Chatterjee writes that the poem embodies Larkin's themes of ""mutual care, sympathy, and kindness."""
"in the villa Foss climbed into one of its chimneys. Foss is said to have been the model for the pussycat in Lear's ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" illustrations, though he chose to depict a full-length tail. Foss is also mentioned in Lear's poem ""How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear"": There are also many drawings by Lear of Foss including the two together and a series depicting Foss in supposed heraldic poses – these include couchant, passant, rampant, regardant, and the more fanciful ""dansant"" (dancing) and ""a untin"" (hunting). The ""New York Times"" stated that Lear's illustrations of Foss were"
"is the effect of illogic and absurdity being used for humorous effect. Under such premises, people can identify precursors and early examples of surreal humour at least since the 19th century, such as Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"", which both use illogic and absurdity (hookah-smoking caterpillars, croquet matches using live flamingos as mallets, etc.) for humorous effect. Many of Edward Lear's children stories and poems contain nonsense and are basically surreal in approach. For example, ""The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World"" (1871) is filled with contradictory statements and odd"