Analysis Of The Poem ' Jabberwocky ' By Lewis Carroll

First, Hunt describes the war and its impacts through personification. “That morning as he looked at the sagging roofs of the house and barn, the general clutter of the ne’er-do-well in the backyard, he felt a dread as if some evil lay close to the ground on its belly and peered out at him”(72). Hunt is personifying the evil and characterizing it with human traits. She also shows how the evil was stalking him, peeking through the holes in the barn door.Another example, is when Hunt uses personification to characterize the war as “a beast with long claws. . .” This shows how the common people of the north viewed the war; people were afraid of the war and the havoc it was causing. The use of the word beast shows how ravaging and vicious the war was; it was creating great fear in the North and in many of the battles, the North was winning. Henceforth , personification can give a book life it never had

The idea of what a monster is and how it pertains to modern day society has fascinated readers and writers for decades. Before taking this class, I was aware of what a monster is and the function it served in today’s society. Furthermore, after taking this class, I am now aware of what a monster truly is, and what really separates a monster from a regular person. The piece of text that I mainly chose to focus on and elaborate closely to demonstrate the aspects of a monster is appropriately named, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. The reason I chose this piece of literature is because, Monster thoroughly elaborates what a monster is in todays society and how it functions in the modern day world. In this essay I will elaborate on

The practice of killing an animal for food, trade or recreational activity has been a fairly permanent and traditional aspect of our history. Even after animal domestication grew, the approach of hunting to supply food was never abandoned. Hence, the idea of an animal’s death is very ordinary. Yet, when the narrator presents the idea of killing another human and hanging their heads on his wall as a trophy, the concept is angering. It allows the readers to pose the question of why we choose to have this double standard. From the birth of our existence, humans have been killing one another. The reasons vary from family feuds, religious disagreement, to territorial gain. Howbeit, no matter the scale of war, there is always an explanation connected to the act; killing for thrill

In Woodchucks, a poem by Maxine Kumin, a gardener is having problems with woodchucks invading her garden. She attempts to kill the woodchucks with cyanide gas, but the Woodchucks wouldn’t die. The pacifist gardener, resorts to violence and shoots the woodchucks with a rifle. She was hoping for an easy solution but ended up going against her peace loving ways and turned violent. Throughout the poem, Maxine Kumin slowly reveals the underlying meaning of her writing. Kumin emphasizes that there are violent thoughts and tendencies in every individual by referencing real life events, by escalading the tone of the poem, and by using a series of literary devices.

In “A Barred Owl,” Wilbur adopts a playful tone through rhyming: “We tell the wakened child that all she heard/ Was an odd question from a forest bird” (3, 4). The rhyme imitates the style of nursery rhymes, creating a joking tone. The playful tone avoids seriousness and weakens the horror of the owl, which contributes to the poem’s style like a nursery rhyme. Wilbur also euphemizes the owl to help create a nursery style. He does not represent the horrible creature of an owl as a carnivore with sharp claws that hunts during the night, but euphemizes it as a “forest bird” (Wilbur 4). The owl’s representation as a safe forest bird refers its figure to the enthusiastic birds with heavenly sounds in cartoons and story books, which often help the protagonist to overcome difficulties and dangers. Referring to nursery imageries of birds, the euphemism contributes to the poem’s style as a nursery rhyme. Creating a playful tone and a nursery style, Wilbur uses rhymes and euphemism to “domesticate fear” (Wilbur

Repeated onomatopoeic terms again set the scene. We are told that a hunt is in progress, and it is described in descriptive detail. Anderson does not romanticise the scene as the duckling cowers from a ‘fearfully big dog’.

The author uses diction throughout the poem to help the reader better understand how the speaker is feeling. For example, "It was hot. A size too large, my wool winter suit scratched" (lines 1-2) shows

Tone- Jabberwocky appears to have a somewhat humorous tone, considering the nonsensical words used, the brevity of the story, and lack of moral. There is no issue or theme addressed that can be applied as an allegory, unlike The Lorax. However, the entire story of the Lorax is rather darker and more applicable in real life, and the tone is both a call to action for the readers and also rather accusatory towards large factories and companies. However, the Jabberwocky appears to have no clear accusations or calls to action and is a vivid contrast to the dark tone of The Lorax. The Jabberwocky poem’s tone is rather ironic, because it presents a usually serious topic (Defeating a vicious beast) with nonsensical baby words, which makes the author’s intent rather humorous. The quote below showcases an action scene with these nonsense words, which changes the tone from serious too rather humorous.

Henry James presents American literature in The Beast of the Jungle altogether from a different perspective. In other words, the narrative forces the reader to read in between the lines in order to find out how light and darkness contributes to the story. James’s unique and vivid themes of seasonal and light/dark imagery also allows the reader to come up with many different possibilities of what the meaning of the story could be. The theme of light versus dark is prevalent throughout the story. Light is described as knowledge, wisdom and promise and darkness is described as confusion, depression and uncertainty. The Beast of the Jungle suggests two main reasons for the use of light and dark imagery: to create uncertainty on the reader to pinpoint who or what the beast is and to refer to Marcher’s belief that at some point in his life he would experience a traumatic event that would change his life.

Whenever a scene of a movie approaches where a debacle unravels or innocent lives are jeopardized, audiences grip their chairs in anticipation for help to come or for a hero to spring into action and save lives. Similarly, in many circumstances, no matter how dire an event might seem, there is always a beacon of hope amongst doleful situations. From every ending comes a new beginning. The poem, “November Cotton Flower”, written by Jean Toomer, describes (the conditions when slaves were under the Harlem Renaissance) the conditions in which slaves were under during the Harlem Renaissance where there seems to be no prospect for a brighter future for the slaves in the society. Throughout the poem, Toomer develops his theme of hope and desire for a brighter future by exhausting literary devices such as metaphors, structure, and imagery.

natural world is imagery. Imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. It is one of the most important devices in “Jabberwocky”. Without using imagery, the poem can be boring, not interesting, and not even exiting. This literary device is based on visual images. The example of an imagery could be this line: “He took his vorpal sword in hand…”(Carroll, 9) The action in this line is that the boy is taking out his sword, he is getting ready to fight with the natural world, with the Jabberwock. You can clearly imagine picture in your head how boy is taking out his “vorpal sword”. Another example of an imagery is this stanza: “The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame/ Came whiffling through the tulgey wood/ And burbled as it came!”(Carroll, 14-16). There is a clear image of scary monster that wants to attack. Especially notice the words “eyes of flame”, “whiffling”, and “burbled”, without them image would be represented bad. Lewis Carroll uses a lot of imagery to represent the theme of “Jabberwocky”. This vivid imagining of boy fighting with the beast helps the reader in picturing human against natural

In the poems “Traveling Through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” man must make a decision about nature in the most inconvenient ways. In “Traveling Through the Dark” the narrator is faced with, literally, a life or death situation, whereas in “Woodchucks” the narrator is faced under the Darwinian belief about killing. Both poems reveal the interpersonal relationship between man and animal as well as the moral dilemma that man faces with nature. However, through the use of narration, vivid imagery, and personification, the poets show one speaker’s sympathetic attitude towards the animals while the other speaker has an adversarial attitude toward them.

In addition, the poem contains a satirical, biblical allusion. Brautigan writes, "where mammals and computers/ live together in mutally/ programming harmony." These lines draw a sharp comparison to the famous passage Isaiah 11.6, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." This passage refers to peace on earth, the very subject of Brautigan's poem. The reader could conclude that the dangerous beasts made gentle are symbolic of the violent ways of man at its end. Also, the "kid" refers to the new technology of computers, who watch over us in loving grace.

When looking at a piece of literature through a psychological approach it is easy to apply Sigmund Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and superego, which focus on conscious and unconscious behavior. When analyzing many of Poe’s works, critics tend to look through a psychological lens. Specifically in Poe’s The Black Cat. Some critics believe that Poe’s alcoholism is reflected in the piece, but many, such as James W. Gargano “advised the tales readers to avoid the biographical pitfall of seeing Poe and the first-person narrator of The Black Cat as ‘identical literary twins’” (Piacentino 1). It is due to his childhood that Poe’s narrator in The Black Cat subconsciously places animals before humans, thus leading to him to murder his wife.

The first stanza is full of most of the nonsense sounds that intensifies the battle. The way Carroll invented such meaningless words is almost comical. "Twas billig and the slithy toves," (Carroll, 36) does not seem to actually say anything, and it is funny how the words sound when spoken. If Carroll's Humpty-Dumpty theory was accepted, a theory of two words with different meaning are combined into one word, (Hunter,193), then one could translate the meaning of the stanza. Consider "brillig" as describing the time of day. "Bril" could be derived form brilliant, and "lig" could be derived from light. When combined the words brilliant light would describe mid-afternoon. The first stanza also gives the idea of the land of animals. "All mimsy were the borogoves," (Carroll, 36) could be translated as "All quiet were the animals." Mimsy could be related to a