The Aged Aged Man

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"The Aged Aged Man" is a humorous, nonsensical poem by Lewis Carroll, presented as a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s "The Village Blacksmith" and featuring an absurdly old man engaged in increasingly ridiculous dialogue.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf comic verse
nonsense poem
poem
author Lewis Carroll NERFINISHED
centuryOfComposition 19th century
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalContext Victorian parody of popular verse
dialogueType increasingly ridiculous conversation
featuresCharacter an aged man
form rhymed verse
genre humorous poetry
parody
hasTheme absurdity
aging
exaggeration
mock-heroic treatment of everyday life
hasTitle The Aged Aged Man NERFINISHED
intendedEffect amusement
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature
literaryRelation parody of a moralizing poem
literaryStyle nonsense literature
meterParodied trochaic tetrameter
narrativeForm dialogue
parodies The Village Blacksmith NERFINISHED
parodiesAuthor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow NERFINISHED
rhymeSchemeParodied from The Village Blacksmith
subjectMatter an absurdly old man
comic dialogue about extreme age
targetAudience adults
children
general readers
tone absurd
comic
usesDevice hyperbole
irony
parodic imitation

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Through the Looking-Glass containsPoem The Aged Aged Man