A Drink with Something in It
A Drink with Something in It - meaning Summary
A Fondness for Martinis
Nash playfully describes the appeal of a martini as a small, anticipatory pleasure before socializing. The speaker savors the drink’s a pleasant tingle and clarifies, with a light ironic twist, that the attraction is less about vermouth and more about gin. The poem reduces social ritual to a simple sensory delight and a witty personal preference, using economy and rhyme to convey charm and comic understatement.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini; I wish I had one at present. There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth-- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
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