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Sukumar Ray's poem, 'The Power of Music' can be classified as __________.
Topic: Form of the poem
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(a) nonsense verse.
Explanation
Sukumar Ray is the master of Bengali nonsense verse, and the poem is built on gleeful absurdity — birds turning turtle in mid-air, buffalo and cows collapsing, a dead billy goat revived to butt the singer silent. The comedy comes from wild exaggeration, not lyrical feeling. Rule out the others by definition: a sonnet has fourteen lines, an ode is a formal address of praise, a lyric expresses personal emotion.
In words
nonsense verse.
Example
Nonsense verse.
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And in the sky the feathered fly turn turtle while
They're winging,2025