Poetry Monday!: "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

A sexually repressed culture that was building history’s biggest empire and yet produced the most off-the-wall nonsense poetry. I think these things are all connected.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

And the Owl and the Pussycat went to sea,
In a beautiful pea green boat.

[Dan Schiavetta]

All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe!

[Cal Cetín]

I'm reporting this obvious obscenity.

/sarc

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Oh dear. You made the most common error in quoting Lewis Carroll: you inserted an extraneous "r" into the word "borogoves". It is NOT "borogRoves"; it's borogoves, with no R after the G. See, for instance, here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky

[Dan Schiavetta]

Akk! You're right! I totally changed the meaning!

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Oh dear. You made the most common error in quoting Lewis Carroll: you inserted an extraneous "r" into the word "borogoves". It is NOT "borogRoves"; it's borogoves, with no R after the G. See, for instance, here:

https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/analysis/poem-origins/jabberwocky/

or here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Oh dear. You made the most common error in quoting Lewis Carroll: you inserted an extraneous "r" into the word "borogoves". It is NOT "borogRoves"; it's borogoves, with no R after the G. See, for instance, here:

https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/analysis/poem-origins/jabberwocky/

[bernard11]

Well done, Sasha, and congratulations on having the good taste to have a Marx brothers poster on the wall.

[Dan Schiavetta]

I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a member!

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Very nice! Although with this particular poem, I prefer it the way my mother used to read it aloud: very rhythmically, in sing-song fashion, almost as if the reader were singing "Row, row, row your boat".

[Cal Cetín]

Recent discoveries show that Edward Lear also invented the genre of dirty limericks, including some of the filthiest of all time currently attributed to "Anonymous."

Quick, repeat this bit of information widely before someone thinks to fact-check it.

[Dan Schiavetta]

There was a young man named Lancelot . . .

From the depths of the crypt at St. Giles . . .

There was a young man from Exeter . . .

[bernard11]

There was a young man from Nantucket

[Dan Schiavetta]

In college I had a born-again Christian friend whose ambition was to write a clean limerick based on that first line. Never got to a convincing solution.

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

My original limerick about Bill Clinton:

The President said to the Ms.:
"Your mouth is a nice place for jizz,
And whether it's moral
For you to give oral
Depends on the meaning of 'is'."

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

There were two young ladies of Birmingham
And this is the tale concerning 'em:
They lifted the frock
And they tickled the ****
Of the Bishop engaged in confirming 'em.

Now, the Bishop was nobody's fool,
(He'd been to a good public school,)
So he lowered his breeches
And bugg**ed those b****es
With his ten-inch epicsopal tool.

But that didn't bother the two;
They laughed when the Bishop withdrew:
"The Vicar is quicker,
And slicker, and thicker,
And longer, and stronger, than you!"

[LegoAthos]

I don't even know what to comment on this one, beyond I enjoyed it.