Ogden Nash attacked this poem for overuse of metaphor and simile in his work "Very Like a Whale.
Ogden Nash attacked this poem for overuse of metaphor and simile in his work "Very Like a Whale." This poem's second stanza contrasts leaves "when Summer is green" with leaves "when Autumn hath blown" to describe its central group, whose eyes "waxed deadly and chill" after an Angel of Death "breathed in the face of the (*) foe as he passed." This poem opens by describing an army "gleaming in purple and gold" coming down "like a wolf on the fold." For 10 points, name this Lord Byron poem about a failed Assyrian conquest.
Ogden Nash attacked this poem for overuse of metaphor and simile in his work "Very Like a Whale.
"The Destruction of Sennacherib"