Confrontation, avoided by all, unpredictably leads to negative consequent and sacrifices. Ellen DeGeneres and Jay Leno are two celebrities iconicity known for using drollery to express personal preferences. Unfortunately, this style would be regarded as humor without validation if it was not for the authors before paving the way for waggery. Ogden Nash, a highly respected poet, established an new form of light verse impacting both literature and society.
Ogden Nash is a great American author, best known for his “pithy and funny light verse” (“Ogden Biography” 1). New York Times refers to him as America’s “best-known producer of humorous poetry” due to his buffoonery verse style. Born in the August of 1902 in Rye, New York as a child he moved often due to his father’s exporting-importing company (1). After completing high school at St. George’s School he attended Harvard University unfortunately quitting a year later. Reflecting on better times, Nash taught at his previous high school but left less than a year later, with little success in establishing another job (2) (“Ogden Nash” 1-2). Nash tried many different careers throughout the next decade finally finding success as a poetic advisor at Doubleday publishing house. Advertising gave him the opportunity to explore various styles of writing where he eventually came up with his own unique style. During this period he moved to Baltimore, the place he ultimately considered his home, married Francis Leonard and promoted from the market department to the editorial department at Doubleday (“Ogden Nash” 1-3).
Among much of Nash’s successes he was featured on many “comedy, radio shows, and gave lectures at colleges.” As the head lyricist for the mash-hit Broadway show One T...
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