What type of utensil that is frequently used in nonsense poetry first appeared in Edward Lear's best-known poem The Owl and the Pussycat?
The Owl and the Pussycat The Owl and the Pussycat "The Owl and the Pussycat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book "Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets". Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term "runcible", used for the phrase "runcible spoon", was invented for the poem. "The Owl and the Pussycat" features four anthropomorphic animals – an owl, a cat, a pig, and a turkey – and tells the story of the love between the title
Nonsense found in "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carroll (1871), is a nonsense poem written in the English language. The word "jabberwocky" is also occasionally used as a synonym of nonsense. Nonsense verse is the verse form of literary nonsense, a genre that can manifest in many other ways. Its best-known exponent is Edward Lear, author of "The Owl and the Pussycat" and hundreds of limericks. Nonsense verse is part of a long line of tradition predating Lear: the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" could also be termed a nonsense verse. There are also some works