Jabberwocky

comes a hero, and heroes always win. In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” there is a hero, there is a villain. There are similar actions between the actions of our chaotic world that are portrayed in “Jabberwocky” that resemble the faults and destruction in our society. Carroll; otherwise known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, never focused on political matters for he wanted to focus more on his stories. Aiming toward the younger audience “Jabberwocky” has the theme of good versus evil that kids like…

The poem Jabberwock by Lewis Carroll is written with language that was made up, this act sparks imagination in the reader and causes the story to be light hearted while being about something violent. The words created by the author relate to English words so that the reader is able to make assumptions and interpret the language to receive the proper tone of the story. Words used in the story such as vorpal, uffish and galumphing are easily interpreted given the context and tone to mean sharp,…

your favorite children's books could be classified as nonsense poems. Let’s compare and contrast two of them. These two pieces of literature were written exactly 100 years apart from each other with The Jabberwocky being written in 1871 and The Lorax being written in 1971. The Lorax and The Jabberwocky are two nonsense poems/stories. They have a lot of similarities and a lot of differences. They front and foremost though, are just fun to read. Let’s start with what they have in common. First…

A nonsense word is a word that had no conventionally accepted meaning, or has no set definition. Nonsense words can be used to influence a story line, an overall vocabulary, and a stories literary devices. In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and an excerpt from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, nonsense vocabulary is used. Both texts have some vocabulary attributes that make them similar and different to the other. It is important to understand how nonsensical word usage affects different…

lot of poems in the world. I chose two to compare, so we could see some different types of poetry. But exactly how would you compare them? The poems “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, and “Two Limericks” by Edward Lear are fairly different. We’ll be comparing these poems by three main points: alliteration, rhyme, and repetition. The poem “Jabberwocky” has quite a few alliterative occurrences, such as: “Callooh callay”. Or even “snicker snack”. Due to “Two Limericks” being so short, it only has a…

smogulous, and smeary. As you can see all of those words are negative words describing the “forest” he used to live in which is now a smokey factory for sneeds to be manufactured.In the Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll uses words such as mimsy, gyre and gimble, and slithy to get the point over that the Jabberwocky is a scary creature that is feared by many people. In both stories the authors use unique words to get the point over that the creature or villain in the story is unwelcoming and…

many amazing pieces of literature are The poem Jabberwocky(written by Lewis Carroll) and a book called The Lorax( written by Dr.Seuss.) Both poems have a very interesting story and weird ways of explaining things. Like any other piece of literature these two have similarities and differences. In this essay I will be talking to you about the setting, figurative language and the conflict in both of these…

Defamiliarization In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Jabberwocky (or The Jabberwocky) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) which he published in 1871 (Niki Pollock, 2000). It is a prime example of how language can be used as tool for defamiliarization as he does with his use of nonsense words and imagery. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem. That is no accident. It did not get mangled in the printer, it was not jumbled up…

Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”, to put it simply, is complete and utter nonsense. It features in Carroll’s novel, Through the Looking Glass, and is approximately seventy-five percent completely made up words. Even Alice, the main character of the book, is bewildered by it saying, “"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.)” (Carroll 64). So why would…

ourselves. Poems such as “Barbie Doll,” “Jabberwocky,” and “Against Love” show how emotions and perspective impact human behavior. How our society behaves can be directly proportional to how people see individuals as in “Barbie Doll”, or how “Jabberwocky” shows how the individual see others, and “Against Love” shows how individuals feel about others. Other peoples’ perspective of individuals can affect how individuals’…