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About the Poet: "The Duck and the Kangaroo" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear. It was first published in Lear's 1870 collection, Nonsense Songs . The poem depicts a dialogue between a pond-bound duck and the kangaroo who represents the duck's greatest chance at freedom. The duck persuades the kangaroo to take the duck around the world on its back. While "The Duck and the Kangaroo" do not share the structure or the precise meter of Lear's limericks , his greatest claim to fame, the poem includes Lear's signature wordplay and his use of anthropomorphism , in which he gives animal characters very human traits and interactions) . About the Poem: The Duck explains that its own life in the pond is boring and that it wants to explore the world. It could fulfil its dream if it could hop like the Kangaroo . The Duck asks the Kangaroo for a ride on th...
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