Frederic Ogden Nash: Poems Literary Elements

The poem "Adventures of Isabel’’ is told from the perspective of a third person subjective point of view.

The poem "Come on in, the senility is fine’’ is written in an iambic pentameter.

In the poem "Children’s Party’’, the narrator uses the party as a metaphor to suggest the childhood period in everyone’s life. The party is described as a wonderful time for those inside a party but a stressful time for those who have to take care of them. Thus, when the narrator claims he will love the children once the party is over is his way of saying that he will only love them once they are no longer children.

We find alliteration in the lines "Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills,/ Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills’’ in the poem ‘’Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer’’.

An irony appears in the poem ‘’Bankers are just like anybody else, expect richer’’, poem in which the narrator points out ironically how the banking system refuses to give money to those who really need it.

The poem ‘’Biological reflection’’ is a meditative poem through which the narrator expresses his own ideas and thoughts.

The poem entitled ‘’Children’s party’’ takes place inside a dog’s house where the narrator chose to seek refuge from the children inside the house.

The tone in the poem ‘’Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer’’ is a sarcastic one and resentful one, the narrator choosing to expresses his dissatisfaction with the banking system through the poem.

The protagonist in the poem ‘’Children’s party’’ is the narrator while the antagonists are the children and their parents.

The major conflict in the poem ‘’Common Cold’’ is between the patient and the doctor who refuses to believe is feels as awful as he claim he does.

The poem ‘’Crossing the border’’ reaches its climax when the population of the world grows at a rapid rate.

The attitude the narrator has towards the doctor in the poem ‘’Common Cold’’ is foreshadowed in the first two lines when the narrator urges the doctor to go and kill himself.

In the poem ‘’Come on in the senility is fine’’ the narrator claims that when people say that grandparents have all the fun with none of the responsibility is an understatement as they often have double the responsibility.

The allusion in the poem ‘’Adventures of Isabel’’ is that those who are the most vocal do more than often the least damage. The characters described in the poem all claim they will do something to or for Isabel but they have no power in the end over her. Thus, the idea alluded in this poem is that those who are quiet are the ones who are the most dangerous.

The term paint is used in the poem ‘’Biological reflection’’ as a general term to make reference to everything a woman may do to make herself look more presentable and attractive.

We find a personification in the line ‘’April (…)/ Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;’’ in the poem ‘’Always marry and April girl’’.

We find a hyperbole in the lines ‘’ This cold you wave away as naught / Is the damnedest cold man ever caught!’’ in the poem entitled ‘’Common Cold’’.

We find an onomatopoeia in the line "all you hear is clinks and clanks," in the poem ‘’Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer’’.