Alluding

In the interpretation of these works, allusions play an important role as links to external objective culture. Often places named in the limericks suggest analogues in history, legend, and recent popular culture that illuminate the themes of the limericks in which they occur. Works with such placenames to be examined here are: the ‘Person of Rhodes’, the ‘Person of Rheims’, the ‘Man of Thermopylae’, the ‘Person of Philoe’, the ‘Person of Gretna’, the ‘Person of Sparta’, the ‘Man of the Dargle’, the ‘Person of Bude’, the ‘Girl of Majorca’, the ‘Man of Spikehead’, and the ‘person of Cannes’. Irrespective of placenames, reference is often verbally or visually implied to iconic figures and events that command attention because of cultural prominence. Examples of such works are: the ‘Man with a flute’, the ‘Person of Rimini’, the ‘Man in a Marsh’, the ‘Man of Vesuvius’, the ‘Person of Dutton’, the ‘Man of Port Grigor’, the ‘Person of Bar’, the ‘Lady of Hull’, the ‘Person of Dover’, the ‘Lady of Corsica’, ‘the Lady in white’, the ‘Man of Peru’, and the ‘Man of Coblenz’.