Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll

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Ok let’s be honest, this reads like a reading test given to Kindergarten students to judge how well they can recognize letters and the sounds they make, and create words from gibberish. That being said the genius of this poem is how Carroll created a poem out of nonsense words and made it sound like an epic tale told around a medieval campfire. In the first stanza(see below) using nonsense he evokes a nostalgic scene on a long ago night (or day) in which the hero goes searching for the mysterious Jaberwoky. I’m not saying anything else, more well read and smarter than myself has written reams on the subject. So sit back relax and listen to the nonsense.

Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
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 in 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!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.