Word: doggerel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loses her two other children, too (one of them is a symbolically mute daughter, another Brechtian figure of innocence), and Mother Courage trudges on, to one of the author's haunting pieces of doggerel...
Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles...
...Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with an Irish endearment...
...language Translator Lenard uses is generally of Tiberian vintage, seldom earlier than Augustus, seldom later than Pliny, but the verse forms he employs are those of medieval doggerel, which he writes with distinction...
...moved to the Foremans' frame cottage, stoned the family's black-and-white dog. "Look," cried one woman, "even their dog's integrated." When police shooed the women away, they went to a hospitable neighbor's lawn, where self-styled "cheerleaders" chanted their favorite doggerel: "Nigger lover, nigger lover, nigger lover, Jew: we hate niggers, we hate you." In front of the shabby public-housing apartment where the Gabrielles live, a crowd of children waved Confederate flags and piped: "All I want for Christmas is a clean white school...