Always Marry an April Girl
Always Marry an April Girl - meaning Summary
April as Fickle Beloved
Ogden Nash's lyric celebrates a lover likened to the month of April, praised for both charm and inconsistency. The speaker admires a partner who is mercurial—warm, stormy, tender, and mischievous—yet remains faithful. The poem treats changefulness as an appealing, humanizing quality, asserting that impermanence and unpredictability coexist with genuine devotion. Its tone balances playful affection with acceptance of contradictory traits.
Read Complete AnalysesPraise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April soft in flowered languor, April cold with sudden anger, Ever changing, ever true -- I love April, I love you.
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