Case 4.2

Nash, Ogden. The Face is Familiar; the Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co, 1941.

SPEC PS3527.A637 F3 1941

Ogden Nash, celebrated for his light verse, is able to make this poem about summer tourism in the Adirondacks very humorous thanks to his use of meter and true rhyme. Nash uses the poem not only to describe the splendor of an Adirondack summer, but to prove that he loves it so much that he’d rather be alone with it, a sentiment shared by many Adirondackers that weather the winter. “Home Thoughts from Little Moose” has a sing-song rhythm which, when contrasted with lines like “I do not feel inclined to share Condition, shore or even air,” creates a voice with a funny, child-like resolve.