Adventures Of Isabel

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Isabel met a hideous giant,
Isabel continued self reliant.
The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forhead.
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Ogden Nash should really be read aloud to fully appreciate his rhyming genius; dancing rhythm and word play that bring a deceptively light touch to what those inclined might call a feminist poem. The fairy tales that force girls into the role of victim are turned upside down; even the modern monster of a doctor attempting to psychologically infect our heroine with hypochondria is "calmly" dealt with. Poems with meaning don't have to be serious.