Edward Lear's illustration of the Owl and the Pussycat

"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable historical feature is the coinage of the term runcible spoon. Edward Lear, illustration for The Owl and the Pussycat Directly scanned from an 1888 copy of Nonsense Books by Edward Lear, Boston, Roberts Brothers. ... Edward Lear, illustration for The Owl and the Pussycat Directly scanned from an 1888 copy of Nonsense Books by Edward Lear, Boston, Roberts Brothers. ... 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. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style 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. ... The term runcible spoon was coined by Edward Lear in the book The Owl and the Pussycat. ...

The poem has been set to music and animated many times, and was the central focus for a 1968 children's musical play about Lear's nonsense poems. The title was borrowed for an unrelated stage play and subsequent 1970 movie starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Barbra Streisand - Guilty Pleasures. ... George Segal George Segal (born February 13, 1934) is a well-known Jewish American film and stage actor who was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. ...

Portions of an unfinished sequel, "The Children of the Owl and the Pussycat," were first published posthumously in 1938.

Extended Version

An 'extended', and much altered version of the poem exists on the internet, written by Samuel Rainbow Caird [1]. Although it also uses the nonsense verse style and has a similar opening to the Edward Lear poem, there is more emphasis on humour in the extended version, as well as a considerably more elaborate plot, which includes a coup. The website is illustrated by a number of artists, many of whom appear as characters within the opus, using a variety of styles (including pencil sketch and photography). 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. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style 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. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... X-35 sketch Pencil sketching is drawing with a pencil. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ...

The extended poem is considered to be an epic poem, which testifies to the difference in character between the work and the Edward Lear poem. In fact, the Lear poem is only 226 words long, whereas the Caird work is almost 19,000 in length. Both poems, however, share the central theme of a love between the two animals that, in the original work, culminates with their marriage in the final verse. It is of note that, where in Lear's work, the animals' genders are unclear, and undiscussed, in Caird's extended version the relationship is specified as one of a homosexual nature. Caird has commented that the existence of such a relationship serves to highlight the theme of universal love that runs throughout the work, there existing also a myriad of other relationships, including another which breaks the bonds of species. In mathematics, see epic morphism. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style 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. ... This article is about sex, meaning the different sexes; male, female, etc. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...

The poem is also commonly referred to as Goatly Boatly, as the 'pea green boat' (featuring in both poems) is comprised of a goat in the extended version. This is also the reason for the URL of the peom's homepage: http://www.goatlyboatly.com A Uniform Resource Locator, URL (spelled out as an acronym, not pronounced as earl), or Web address, is a standardized address name layout for resources (such as documents or images) on the Internet (or elsewhere). ... Homepage or Home may refer to: the start page or main web page of a website the website of a group or individual the page that is displayed when you enter only a domain name as URL (e. ...

References

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The Owl and the Pussycat

• "The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See." Accessed October 25, 2005.
• "The Owl and the Pussycat." Accessed October 25, 2005.
• "The Children of the Owl and the Pussycat." Accessed October 25, 2005.
• Free audiobook from LibriVox

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External Links

• "The 'extended' version of the Owl and the Pussycat, by Sam R. Caird."