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	About Strong Verse
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	Nonsense Verse
		The aim of all nonsense verse is to amuse, and perhaps to shock.
		The language of nonsense verse ranges from the fanciful and often aesthetically pleasing - "Hey-diddle-diddle, the cat and the fiddle / The cow jumped over the moon" - to words on the edge of meaning that tell a not-quite story.
		The 19th century English writers Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll are the ultimate nonsense verse poets.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/illustration_and_illumination/95502 (461 words)

	Nonsense verse
		Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange.
		Nonsense verse in this sense should be distinguished from humorous verse or from verse that is nonsensical but intended as parody of modernist verse, such as the poems by the fictitious Ern Malley.
		In the latter case, the nonsense is an in-joke or hoax, and there is an assumption that it would be taken as meaningful, and even deep, by some readers (whose taste is thus ridiculed).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/no/nonsense_verse.html (900 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		nonsense verse of five lines, 1896, perhaps from the county and city in Ireland, but if so the connection is obscure.
		"nonsense patter sung to jazz," 1926, probably of imitative origin, from one of the syllables used.
		"nonsense, rubbish," 1940, U.S. slang; originally 1920s army and college student slang for "venereal disease." Said to be a metathesis variant of curd, which actually makes it an unconscious return to the original M.E. form of that word (see curd).
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=nonsense (2054 words)

	Nonsense - ArticleWorld
		Nonsense is in few words the lack of meaning of human language or other symbolic system.
		This problem is very important in cryptography; cryptanalysts found algorithms to establish whether a given text is a nonsense or not by analyzing the presence of repetitions and redundancy in a text.
		Nonsense verse represents a long tradition; lines of nonsense appear in refrains of folksongs.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Nonsense (341 words)

	Nonsense verse - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange.
		Nonsense verse in this sense should be distinguished from humorous verse or from verse that is nonsensical but intended as parody of modernist verse, such as the poems by the fictitious Ern Malley.
		In the latter case, the nonsense is an in-joke or hoax, and there is an assumption that it would be taken as meaningful, and even deep, by some readers (whose taste is thus ridiculed).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nonsense_verse (732 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for verse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Quantitative verse, the metre of Classical Greek and Latin poetry, measures the length of time required to pronounce syllables, regardless of their stress;...
		A poet who is also a professor of mathematics and physics, he has written verse influenced by existential philosophy and has called his work antipoetry because it is written in clear, colloquial language and deals with issues of common interest.
		Vetting the verse novel.(The Sand in the Oyster)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=verse&StartAt=11 (792 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter M
		A figure of speech involving the substitution of one noun for another of which it is an attribute or which is closely associated with it, e.g., "the kettle boils" or "he drank the cup." Metonymy is very similar to synecdoche.
		Sidelight: An outstanding example in English verse is Pope's The Rape of the Lock, which he wrote to expose the absurdity of a threatened feud between two families over an incident in which a young baron cut a curl from the head of a society belle.
		Sidelight: Although the idea of a monosyllabic foot in English verse has been proposed, i.e., an accented syllable plus a hypothetical pause, the notion that pauses may constitute parts of feet is contrary to generally accepted metrical theories.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-m.html (1892 words)

	Nonsense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Well done, it is a skillful blending of meaningful and meaningless words, often resembling Lewis Carroll's nonsense poetry.
		Amphigory is a staple element in nonsense verse.
		Nonsense verse may take any form and use any style, but it is most often characterized by a flowing meter and obivious, sometimes ludicrous, rhyme.
	thewordshop.tripod.com /nonsense.html (706 words)

	The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: Nonsense Verse
		As we remember, not all comic verse is nonsense verse, but the aim of all nonsense verse is to amuse, and perhaps shock.
		Ogden Nash (1902-1971) is (or was) a gifted nonsense poet, except (of course) as with all important nonsense poetry sense is the whole point.
		In a way, one could regard this as the perfect nonsense verse: it looks like poetry, the words appear to be rational and grammatically correct, but it touches reality at no point!
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/words_articles/poems_nonsense.htm (695 words)

	Verse
		Most verse writing uses meter as its primary organizational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses grammatical and discoursal units like sentences and paragraphs.
		Verse may also use rhyme and other technical devices that are often associated with poetry.
		It is often sharply contrasted with the chorus or refrain melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/verse.html (126 words)

	Nonsense & Whimsy in Robert Hunter's Lyrics
		There is a long-standing and honorable tradition of nonsense in English language poetry, and Robert Hunter has contributed several notable examples of the form in his years as lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
		A characteristic of nonsense is that it lends itself so well to diverse interpretation, when in fact the key might be that there is "no sense" to the verse; images are free to resonate independently of actual meaning.
		Nonsense is a perfect refuge for the cherished sense of ambiguity with which Hunter seeks to imbue his lyrics; interpretation is a task which, though not entirely pointless, can also never be entirely sensible.
	arts.ucsc.edu /GDead/AGDL/nonsense.html (684 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for nonsense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		nonsense mutation A mutation that alters a gene so that a nonsense codon is inserted.
		US upholds No Nonsense ads, but company withdraws them.
		A lot of nonsense going on: UF Coach Urban Meyer says preseason talk in college football centers on nonsensical subjects.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=nonsense&StartAt=1 (625 words)

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		Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning.
		Nonsense verse represents a long tradition; its best known exponent is Edward Lear, author of The Owl and the Pussycat and hundreds of limericks.
		Nonsense verse represents a tradition older than Lear; the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle is also a sort of nonsense verse.
	www.phantasytour.com /bisco/boards_thread.cgi?threadID=1268859 (1599 words)

	Lear,
		It is a form of light verse that was popularized by Edward Lear with the publication of his Book of Nonsense in 1846.
		Verse may be defined as an obviously rhythmical use of language, manipulating accent, stress, and cadence in such a way as to create recurrent pattern of emphasis.
		Haikus are three-line verses that in the hands of Japanese poet masters of the seventeenth century became delicate instruments for expressing feelings and pictures about nature and especially about seasonal variations.
	www.geocities.com /bodamato/limericks.html (5466 words)

	Arthur Deex, The Assent of Limerick
		The verses were known as nonsense verses one day -- and the next, as limericks.
		Lear's books of nonsense verse were known to everyone in the English speaking world by the end of the nineteenth century.
		Following Lear's example, the bawdy verses were geographically oriented: The old man from _____; The lady from ______.
	www.nonsenselit.org /Lear/limerick/deex.html (553 words)

	What is nonsense poetry? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Humorous or whimsical verse that differs from other comic verse in its resistance to any rational or allegorical interpretation.
		Skilled literary nonsense verse is rare; most of it has been written for children and is modern, dating from the beginning of the 19th century.
		The cardinal date could be considered 1846, when The Book of Nonsense was published; this was a collection of limericks composed and illustrated by the artist Edward Lear, who first created them in the 1830s for the children of the earl of Derby.
	www.sonic.net /~formorts/nonsense/nonsensepoetry.html (227 words)

	Poetry
		Nonsense verse, appeals to children because it deals with illogical and silly characters and situations.
		Lear's best-known nonsense poem is "The Owl and the PussyCat".
		Nonsense verse about such inventive animals as the Anteloop, Blimpanzee, and Camelephant.
	www.colquitt.k12.ga.us /doerun/poetry.htm (709 words)

	20th WCP: Reading 'Jabberwocky' Rightfully: Meaning, Understanding, and the Politics of Interpretation
		Although she doesn't quite recognize the poem for what it is, viz., a nonsense poem, her initial response is correct.
		Her response is close to that of someone who knows how to read and appreciate nonsense verse.
		She has lost confidence in her own ability to read, in her own power as a reader; she assumes there must be more to the nonsense poem than meets the eye, and proceeds to defer to the hermeneutical authority of Humpty.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Inte/InteDudd.htm (2341 words)

	t r i p l o p i a
		And that there is no better place to make mistakes than within the "lipslippery" confines of nonsense poetry, where making mistakes is not only necessary, it is prerequisite.
		I know that you have written one book on the subject of writing, and that, rather than calling yourself a 'poet' you tend to use the phrase 'literacy activist,' both facts that would suggest you consider yourself to be as much an educator as a poet.
		It's almost as if the nonsense gravitates towards a sort of counterbalance that can be found in formal structures.
	www.triplopia.org /inside.cfm?ct=173 (2579 words)

	Stop Making Sense -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On the contrary, it has a playful attraction to form, particularly rhyme and meter—in fact, the tighter the rules, and the more punctilious and arbitrary the enforcement, the happier nonsense is. Emotional repression is also useful: The two founding fathers of nonsense verse, Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, were celibate Victorian Englishmen.
		The lavish new Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse is an exemplary anthology, covering the ground with thoroughness while also aggravating and enlarging the definition of its subject.
		Edward Lear, a very lonely and suffocatingly closeted gay man, used nonsense as a sort of code, in which (as every biographer post-Freud has pointed out) too-tight shoes and overlarge noses were featured with dream-like repetitiveness, the poet’s pinched libido blooming fantastically into a procession of tender, proboscile, disappointed phalluses.
	www.inthesetimes.com /article/stop_making_sense (870 words)

	Edward Lear and Nonsense
		EDWARD Lear is best known as the writer of much loved nonsense verses such as The Owl and the Pussycat, but a new Edinburgh exhibition at the National Gallery of Scotland aims to showcase his legacy as an inspired Victorian artist.
		Inspired by Edward Lear, Ms Lowe noticed that the 'writer of Nonsense verse' repeatedly mentioned food in his writings and decided to collect as much material as possible which led her to research collections in the UK and USA.
		His style is in the genre of nonsense verse, similar to that of Edward Lear, author of the Owl and the Pussycat.
	www.nonsenselit.org /Lear/blogger/blogger.html (6289 words)

	Essays on Lear and Nonsense Literature
		This is an interesting interpretation of children's literature in the Victorian age, contrasting it to traditional nursery rhymes, here represented by Hey Diddle Diddle (see Lear's pictures for the rhyme).
		Clifton Snider, Victorian Trickster: A Jungian Consideration of Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse
		Under the Pseudonym of Martin Wellborn, he is also the author of The Edwardian Leer, a parody of Lear's Book of Nonsense, containing "the original 112 canonic Lear nonsense verses before they were censored by the publisher".
	www.nonsenselit.org /Lear/artic.html (457 words)

	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Nonsense
		Re del nonsense verse fu Edward Lear (1812-1888), che fu poi nella vita un uomo serio, pittore, viaggiatore e financo maestro di disegno della regina Vittoria.
		Lear è stato anche l'inventore del limerick, forma poetica (comica) del tutto particolare composta da quattro versi d'ineguale misura, fortemente accentuati e ripetutamente rimati, che terminano con un verso lunghissimo, zeppo di «rime al mezzo» che sbuca dopo i primi saltellanti tre con un effetto stranissimo.
		Ouesti sono dei libri interi di nonsense, che narrano le avventure di una bimba sperduta in un mondo ben più irreale che quello abituale delle Fate.
	www.nonsenselit.org /Lear/tomasi.html (742 words)

	Edward Lear Biography and Summary
		Lear's nonsense verse and limericks, especially his classic The Owl...
		Edward Lear's illustrated nonsense verse, narratives, alphabets, and botanies are early and central examples of a type of literature for children that endures because it conveys humorous, vigorous, and accessible images of a skewed reality.
		Edward Lear(12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised.
	www.bookrags.com /Edward_Lear (291 words)

	Who are the great 'nonsense poets'? in The AnswerBank: Phrases & Sayings
		Humorous verse that differs from other comic verse in that it cannot be subjected to any rational or allegorical interpretation.
		Some of his nonsense words are so convincing that they have entered the language.
		His nonsense verse is closer to Peake's than it is to the others and, like Peake, he illustrates his own work.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1020.html (587 words)

	Nonsense Poetry - Essay by George Orwell
		In many languages, it is said, there is no nonsense poetry, and there is
		Edward Lear, whose nonsense rhymes have just been edited by Mr R.L. Megroz, who was also responsible for the Penguin edition a year
		Lear, and is inclined to prefer his verse to that of Lewis Carroll, as
	www.george-orwell.org /Nonsense_Poetry/0.html (866 words)

	Edward Lear
		But it was for his nonsense verse that Edward Lear was to become most famous.
		He had recited nonsense verse to the children at Knowsley but it was not until 1845 that he decided to publish A Book of Nonsense.
		Many believe that Lear's success derived from his sense of fun and that unlike traditional nursery rhymes there was no feeling of reproach or fear-inducement, or even righteous preaching.
	www.biogs.com /famous/lear.html (436 words)

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