Theme Of Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll is a poet often known as ahead of his time, and his poems and books amazed the people of the 1800s. However, many things happened before Carroll became successful. Strange relationships with young girls and thoughts of “sin and guilt” surrounded Carroll’s reputation and his mind. Even his meeting with Alice Liddell (better known as the star in her book Alice in Wonderland) caused several whispers among critics and other writers. After making several relationships with small children, Lewis Carroll wrote poems using literary devices such as imagery and personification to create a fantasy worlds that the children would enjoy including beast, heroes, and villains like in his poem “Jabberwocky” The theme of Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” is that everyone can do amazing things. The poem is first presented in Alice Through the Looking Glass and What She Finds There. Alice is the main character featured in the series and has related qualities to the young boy in “Jabberwocky” Alice first finds the poem in a book she cannot read, only until she holds the book up to a mirror does the writing become clear. She reads poem out loud and seems …show more content…
Even though he received a wonderful education as a child he was neglected after his younger siblings were born. He also had a stutter which kept from making friends with children his age, so he often stayed inside. As an adult he considered marriage, but the found the company of children to be better. Carroll enjoyed their innocence and their ability to do things that seem impossible to him. Perhaps, his child friends resulted in never having a childhood of his own and he was trying to relive his life through them. The universal theme of the poem is doing things that seem impossible. Carroll went through many things in his childhood and young adult life, that seemed impossible to him. Publishing books proved that he could accomplish things to him and to many people seem