SuitabookThe Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse
Quentin Blake
- Reading
- Dip into one section or poem at a time, then pause over Blake’s illustrations and compare how different poets create their comic effects.
- Themes
- Nonsense and comic invention: The collection gathers comic poems with topsy-turvy, fantastical and illogical ideas, and Blake's illustrations draw out their absurdity. The collection presents nonsense as a comic poetic form, using playful illogic and illustration to create amusement.
- Worth knowing
- The poems include fantastical and anarchic ideas, so their humour may depend on surprise and deliberate illogic rather than realistic situations.