(27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953 / La Celle-Saint-Cloud)

poet Hilaire Belloc
#70 on top 500 poets
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George

Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions

When George's Grandmamma was told
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  • Bj Randhawa (1/24/2012 10:33:00 PM)

    the poem can be read through a Marxist perspective...a little mistake by the aristocratic boy led to the demise of many a working class people...what you think? ? ?

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  • Hans Vr (1/24/2012 6:55:00 AM)

    Cute poem.

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  • Pranab K Chakraborty (1/24/2012 5:43:00 AM)

    Nice wit. Poet at last put a moral just to communicate our idiocy. BALLOON...just a globe could be its match. In Chaplins Great Dictator we have experienced it already. A globe is very much like our loving planet. A child...yes, the bosses, in respect of our planet, are child no doubt. We put the right to administrate our social existence to their hand. So should be conscious before selection...How long is poets length, we don't know but his lucid style of fables introducing in poetry, is unique.

    Pranab k chakraborty

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  • Manonton Dalan (1/24/2012 4:48:00 AM)

    oh! i was thinking that earthquake pushed balloon to candle flame as the
    house start to crumble... just a thought from once california kid. md

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  • Paul Brookes (1/24/2012 3:46:00 AM)

    All politicians should be made to raed this everyday then maybe they would think twice about starting wars. Great poem.

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  • Kevin Straw (1/24/2011 9:41:00 AM)

    Mankind is a boy with dangerous toys!

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  • Lesley Merrin (1/27/2010 10:57:00 AM)

    I love this poem because it seems as it is written for me and my two year old grandson. His name is George so I find the poem very amusing. I can't wait for when he understands it.

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  • Hormish Woo (1/24/2010 6:44:00 PM)

    I admire the melody of the poem!

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  • Ramesh T A (1/24/2010 1:38:00 AM)

    Humorous expression of balloon explosion leading to all kinds of destruction shows Hilaire Belloc's skill in descriptive beauty in poetry and he is par excellence in this art no doubt!

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  • Jonathan Horwitz (9/8/2008 2:00:00 AM)

    Someone should read this poem every morning to George W. Bush.

    It should also be read into the Congessional Record, and hand delivered to every senator

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