Nancy Goldfarb (1999) defined a portmanteau in this way: “Applied to words, a portmanteau is the opposite of a pun…a portmanteau uses two words to arrive at a single meaning” (p. 86). In addition to the word “galumphing”, Carrol used other words classified as a portmanteau throughout the poem. For example, he used the word “slithy” in the first stanza of the poem which is a combination of the words lithe and slimy. Similarly, in the second stanza of the poem he used the word “frumious” combining the words fuming and furious. When reading the poem, although the reader may not know their meaning, he or she can determine that they are not pleasing words. At any rate, Lewis Carrol was adept at taking certain parts of two different words and making them into one (Brottman, 2010). Still, the reader can ascertain that the “slithy toves” and the “frumious Bandersnatch” aren’t beast to be trifled
Nancy Goldfarb (1999) defined a portmanteau in this way: “Applied to words, a portmanteau is the opposite of a pun…a portmanteau uses two words to arrive at a single meaning” (p. 86). In addition to the word “galumphing”, Carrol used other words classified as a portmanteau throughout the poem. For example, he used the word “slithy” in the first stanza of the poem which is a combination of the words lithe and slimy. Similarly, in the second stanza of the poem he used the word “frumious” combining the words fuming and furious. When reading the poem, although the reader may not know their meaning, he or she can determine that they are not pleasing words. At any rate, Lewis Carrol was adept at taking certain parts of two different words and making them into one (Brottman, 2010). Still, the reader can ascertain that the “slithy toves” and the “frumious Bandersnatch” aren’t beast to be trifled