Doggerel Decoded
thanks to everyone who participated in the first ever and probably last Doggerel Prize contest!
Below is the list of intended references in the poem and the basis on which points were awarded.
Of course, we got a lot of other very creative ones as well, and that was the point.
We'll announce the winner (assuming we have permission to publish the name.)
The Walrus and the Carpenter: Carroll
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Angelou
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: C S Lewis
Harry Potter (any): J K Rowling
Lord of the Rings: J R R Tolkein
Sometimes A Great Notion: Kesey
Tales and Sketches / The Sketch Book: Washington Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird: Lee
Go Set a Watchman: Lee
The Alchemist: Coehlo
The Little Prince: Saint-Exupery
The Catcher in the Rye: Salinger
Valley of the Dolls: Susann
The Handmaid's Tale: Atwood
A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens
Tales of the City: Maupin
The Town: Faulkner
The Boys in the Boat: Brown
The Owl and the Pussycat: Lear
Dune: Herbert
The Known World: Jones
The Kite Runner: Hosseini
Aloft: Chang-Rae Lee
The Borrowers Afloat: Norton
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler: Calvino
The Pilgrim's Progress: Bunyan
The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Dillard
A Bend in the River: Naipaul
The River Why: Duncan
The Road Not Taken: Frost
The Road: McCarthy
Out of Sight: Elmore Leonard
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Silverstein
Wind in the Willows: Grahame
A Hundred Years of Solitude: Garcia Marquez
When the Wind Blows: Patterson
Gone with the Wind: Mitchell
Down by the Salley Gardens: Yeats
1Q84: Murakami
1984: Orwell
there-ish: tribute to Ogden Nash -- no one will get this one!
The Sun Also Rises: Hemingway
The Warmth of Other Suns: Wilkerson
Tortilla Flat: Steinbeck
Flatland: Abbott
Death Comes for the Archbishop: Cather
The Dark: Snicket and Klassen
Darkwing: Oppel
The Wind in the Willows: Grahame
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Browning
The Cat in the Hat: Seuss
Goodnight Moon: Brown
The Owl and the Pussycat: Lear
We're Still Here, Ya Bastards: Gratz
the rook, aka a black bird: The Maltese Falcon: Hammett
The Raven: Poe
Dave Isay (Storycorps)
Any reference to books on the Santa Fe Trail.