A BOOK OF NONSENSE

EDWARD LEAR

Edward Lear is the British poet and painter. He is well-known for his absurd wits, especially for his symbolic limericks, a humorous fine-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba.

from http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/BoN/bon100.html

Those are examples of his limericks. His five line poems are beautifully designed with the rhyme, but when you read it aloud, you’ll find out that they are making no sense, and they are not actually telling something. However, I enjoyed that absurdity inside his limericks.

His poems go well with his simple pen drawings as well. Those paintings look quite hilarious and funny, which adds the absurd atmosphere into the poems.

from http://www.bencourtney.com/ebooks/lear/index4.html#m5

He also has done some drawings out of his imagination. Those unreal plants made me think about how they will look like if they are real.

I found out that if you limit the colours of the images, it makes the audiences think more, and put their own tastes of colours into it.

from http://www.bencourtney.com/ebooks/lear/index4.html#m5

Those four line poems are in the order of the alphabet it starts with, which reminded me of those books for children to learn the alphabet.

It is interesting that those poems look quite nonsense when they are by themselves, but when you read them all together, you can get much informations about “Papa”.