Ogden+Nash

Ogden Nash!

Through constant industry industrious. So what? Would you be calm and placid If you were full of formic acid?** || __The Ant__ is obviously about an ant. Nash says how well know the ant has become for its work habits. Then he goes on to say why the ant is such a worker: it is filled with acid. Even though its not actually filled with formic acid, it just produces it. || The theme of this poem is hard work and how important it is || || We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! We really look all right to us, As you no doubt delight the eye Of other hippopotami.** || __The Hippopotamus__ is a simple poem. It is obviously about a hippo and how silly it may appear to humans when in fact, humans, with all of our varying body styles probably appear even more ridiculous to the hippo then the hippo appears to us. || My interpretation of this poem is that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Someone that may be beautiful to someone could be perceived as atrocious to someone else. i.e The story of the hippo.
 * = **THE ANT** || **Analysis** |||| **Interpretation** ||
 * = **The ant has made himself illustrious
 * = **THE HIPPOPOTAMUS** || **A nalysis ** |||| **Interpretation** ||
 * = **Behold the hippopotamus!

Ogden Nash could also be pointing out how odd humans are and how odd some look. From anorexic people to medically enhanced people, humans appear very strange from an outside perspective. || || The two poems came from the website below. [] The images are from yahoo images []