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Jabberwocky is a 'nonsense poem ' written by Lewis Carroll in his novel Through the Looking-Glass. All the same, it does strangely make a kind of sense.
In an early scene Alice in wonderland finds the verse Jabberwocky. This is now thought to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. The concept of nonsense verse was not original to Carroll.
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The illustration of the Jabberwock may reflect the Victorian obsession with natural history and the fast-evolving sciences of palaeontology and geology. The works of Darwin and the models of dinosaurs at the Crystal Palace Exhibition helped feed the interest.
Perhaps it is not so surprising that Tenniel gave the Jabberwock "the leathery wings of a pterodactyl and the long rough neck and tail of a sauropod ". The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the Manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
Jabberwocky Poem Analysis
One, two! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day!
Many of the words in the poem are playful words of Carroll's own invention, without special meaning. When Alice has finished reading the poem she gives her impressions:.]
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