World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
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'World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)' Summary
This volume of poetry, part of a ten-volume series, delves into the realms of humor and satire, exploring a wide array of themes through a collection of light and comic verse. It offers a diverse range of styles and techniques, including parodies, imitations, and nonsense poems. The poems explore topics like religion, the working class, romantic relationships, government, food, the human body, animals, nature, and everyday pastimes. The collection also includes examples of inventive techniques like puns, wordplay, alliteration, doggerel, adventurous rhyming patterns, and dialect. It provides a unique and insightful perspective on the multifaceted nature of human experience through the lens of light-hearted and often humorous poetry.Book Details
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