Limerick and Icarus

Limerick

There was a Young Person of Crete,Whose toilette was far from complete;She dressed in a sack,Spickle-speckled with black,That ombliferous person of Crete.



I found this Limerick by Edward Lear on the internet. I thought that is was kind of interesting that the setting for this Limerick was in Crete and that is where The Story of Daedalus and Icarus takes place. I think that after talking about all the retellings of the story in class and how author's got together and retold the story in their own way, I think that this may be one of those retellings.

The poem is full of non-sense. It has non-sense words in it like ombliferous. That is about as relevent as bibidybobidyboo. But it is funny and you still know that the poem is about a woman from Crete, Im guessing Icarus's sister, who is not clean. Toilette refers to fixing yourself up.(Good Hygene). So here is this woman who needs to take a bath and put on some real clothes, not a sack while Icarus is flying high over her head on his way to his death. I would rather be an ombliferous person from Crete than a dead person from Crete.