"The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes" by Alfred Bruce Douglas, is a collection of funny poems from the early 1900s that uses creative rhymes to discuss themes about people, animals, and society. The poems often make playful comparisons between animals and human behaviors in order to comment on the way society acts. Douglas uses humor and clever words to amuse those that enjoy poems about animals that act like humans and funny social observations. The poems show different animals, like the calm pug in the title, and use their qualities to represent human attitudes and views on society. Each rhyme looks at ideas, like being relaxed, having babies, the attraction of nature, and the differences between animals. As an example, the calm pug stands for a comfortable life without much ambition, and the Belgian hare represents being fertile and productive. Douglas includes these metaphorical messages throughout the poems, making readers laugh and think about the deeper ideas behind the fun images and playful comparisons.
The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes
By Alfred Bruce Douglas
Laugh as animals hilariously mirror human traits and behaviors in this collection of witty rhymes.
Summary
About the AuthorLord Alfred Bruce Douglas, also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married a poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned. On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married a poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond.
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