Parody
Generations of disrespectful schoolchildren, perhaps in accord with Butler's way of thinking, created parodies. One, recalled by Martin Gardner, editor of Best Remembered Poems, went:
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- The boy stood on the burning deck,
- The flames 'round him did roar;
- He found a bar of Ivory Soap
- And washed himself ashore.
Michael R. Turner, editor of Victorian Parlour Poetry, contributed:
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- The boy stood in the waiting room,
- Whence all but he had fled;
- His waistcoat was unbuttoned,
- His mouth was gorged with bread...
While a version found in "Oh, How Silly!" (ed. William Cole):
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- The boy stood on the burning deck
- Eating peanuts by the peck;
- His father called, he would not go
- Because he loved those peanuts so.
Spike Milligan also parodied the opening of the poem:
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- The boy stood on the burning deck
- Whence all but he had fled -
- Twit!
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Famous quotes containing the word parody:
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
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