Poems of Ogden Nash

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"The purpose of this research is to examine selected poems from three collections by Ogden Nash. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which each poetry collection emerged, and then to discuss, by means of comparison and contrast, how the poems reflect both Nash's humor and his strategy of social commentary.
In three collections of poetry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Versus, and You Can't Get There From Here, Nash uses light verse to accomplish the work of insight into certain realities of contemporary human experience. Although Nash's reputation is as an "indefatigable American rhymester" (Atwood 81), it would be misleading to confine his range of concern to diverting humor. For as a matter of fact, the evidence of the poems is that they are meant to oblige the reader to focus on realities that are not always.."

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