Ogden Nash

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biographical information about Ogden Nash:
Ogden Nash is one of the few American humorous poets.. His many poems are loved by both children and adults . Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York, on August 19, 1902 . He went to a school in Newport, Rhode Island. He decided to get a job. He became a teacher at his old school in Rhode Island, which was called St. George's School, but quit because of stress from his fourteen-year-old students. Ogden Nash then became a salesman, then an adviser, then an editorial staff worker. Then he became a famous poet. He died on May 19, 1971,in Baltimore, Maryland.

facts about his writings:

Ogden Nash's strongest style in his writing was humor, but he had many others.

One of his techniques was to write some of his lines of uneven lengths.

He also misspelled and made up words to make them rhyme and sound humorous, which was strange since he went to Harvard, a very serious school.

He often wrote about animals, which I like. It makes poems more interesting. Here is a poem of his.