Ogden Nash | This is Going to Hurt Just a Little | An Analytical Study
Ogden Nash | This is Going to Hurt Just a Little | An Analytical Study
Ogden Nash | This is Going to Hurt Just a Little | An Analytical Study
‘This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit’ is a humorous poem written by Ogden Nash. It is written on the poet’s own experience which he had while he went to a dentist to get his teeth treated. The main theme of the poem is fear of pain—both mental and physical. The poem is written in irregular line length.
The poet says that he likes one thing less which is sitting on a dentist’s chair with his mouth wide open. He feels the condition very tormenting because it gives both physical and mental torture. The poet says:
‘…..some tortures are physical and some are mental
But the one that is the both is dental.’
The treatment may not be so much dreadful or painful but the attitude and the style of the dentist with his instruments are painful that causes both mental and physical torture. The poet is surprised at the use of the instruments of the dentist, because the doctor uses his instruments with the help of a mirror.
At last, the poet suggests to his readers to keep their teeth in good condition so that they can get rid of going to a dentist.
It is to say that the poem is a good specimen of how a trifling everyday experience can be a theme of a poem.
The language and style of the poem are simple, yet there are minor difficulties in understanding the meanings of some words and phrases as the poet invents some new words in order to make a rhyme with other words as—‘hopen’, ‘monce’ and ‘sentest’. The phrases not easily comprehensible in the poetic sense are—to be strong up by ‘thumbs’, ‘crowbar’ and ‘vicious circle’. Moreover, the poem is coloured by simile and metaphor.
To conclude it must admit that this is a simple humorous poem written about an ordinary everyday experience the style and language of which are also simple though not written in regular line length. 0 0 0
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N. B. This article entitled ‘Ogden Nash | This is Going to Hurt Just a Little | An Analytical Study’ originally belongs to the book ‘World Poetry Criticism‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
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