Nonsense poems

EDWARD LEAR is most famous as a writer of nonsense verses. In them he shows his melancholy and alienation from Victorian society. He created a form of poems called limerick, which plays with words and second meanings, breaking logical rules. He brought to the English readers the relief of the absurd, at the end of a sometimes hevily didactic Victorian era (the same happens with Charles Lutwidge Dodgson -LEWIS CARROLL-)

Here you can read some examples of this kind of funny poetry:

'Beneath these high Cathedral stairs,
Lies the remains of Susan Pares.
Her name was Wiggs, it was not Pares,
But Pares was put to rhyme with stairs.'

Or these ones:

' There was a young lady whose chin
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And perches the harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.'

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'Is life worth living?
That depends on the LIVER!'