Writers draw inspiration from many places, including the work of other writers and their own lives.

The great American comic poet Ogden Nash (1902-71) can wrote a great number of short poems, though they were not all classics….Below, we introduce ten of Nash’s very best comic poems.

1. ‘The Cow’.
2. ‘Reflections on Ice-Breaking’.
3. ‘The Duck’.
4. ‘The Fly’.
5. ‘The Octopus’.
6. ‘Old Men’.
7. ‘The Pig’.
8. ‘A Caution to Everybody’.

She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the giant’s head off. Isabel met a troublesome doctor, He punched and he poked till he really shocked her. The doctor’s talk was of coughs and chills And the doctor’s satchel bulged with pills.

“Adventures of Isabel” is written in one long stanza that has 40 lines. The AABB rhyme scheme is clearly noticeable in the poem. It’s simply written in a surrealist style which was obtainable during the Modernist period. The major theme of the poem is that man has the capacity of controlling the incontrollable.

The major theme of the poem is that man has the capacity of controlling the incontrollable. He also has the ability to overcome circumstances in life. Actually, the poem tells a story of a little girl, Isabel who had lots of challenges to overcome.

Isabel met a wicked old witch. the witch’s face was cross and wrinkled, The witch’s gums with teeth were sprinkled.

What did the giant want to do to Isabel? 2 Ans. The giant wanted to grind Isabel’s bones (into fine powder, like flour) to make his bread.

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared the country’s best-known producer of humorous poetry.

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