DOROTHY PARKER ENOUGH ROPE Nafisa Rebello It was Prof. Eunice D’souza who at the beginning of the year introduced us to the poems of Dorothy Parker. It was just a brief glance, something not from within the syllabus and forgotten the next day. But ‘Resume’ and ‘War Song’ would not get out of my head that easily. Intrigued by the woman who famously said ‘Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses’, I …showed first 75 words of 2956 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2956 total…tone and compactness of form. She saw the range of humour stretching from open sarcasm to a tired and mordant stoicism, and her poetry reflects this wider perspective. “Her poems”, Corey Ford has observed, “were exquisite cameos, poignant and haunting” as well as sudden comic reversals. ªENDª Bibliography Bibliography Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker by Arthur F. Kinney The Portable Dorothy Parker http://imglib.lbl.gov/ImgLib/COLLECTIONS/BERKELEYLAB/PEOPLE/INDIVIDUALS/index/96602763.html