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The Height of the Ridiculous

Maharashtra Board · Class 10 · English

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Poem Overview

  • The poem is written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
  • The speaker says he wrote some lines in a wondrous merry mood.
  • The lines are described as so queer that he laughed as he would die.
2

Character Sketches

  • The Narrator or Poet is the speaker of the poem.
  • He is usually calm and serious, but in this poem he is in a humorous mood.
  • He calls himself a slender man and a sober man, which is an ironic self-description.
3

Humour and Literary Devices

  • The poem uses comic exaggeration to build humour.
  • The laughter rises line by line, creating dramatic comic escalation.
  • The poet’s choice of words makes the poem playful and light.
4

Line-by-Line Reaction of the Servant

  • At the first line, the servant’s face is all upon the grin.
  • At the next line, the grin grows broad and spreads from ear to ear.
  • At the third line, a chuckling noise begins.

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The servant’s reaction grows step byThe poet writes in a ‘wondrousThe poet calls himself a soberRidiculous means too funny to believeAfter watching the servant’s reaction

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