Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Throughout this poem, the tone is used often to create an atmosphere of mystery in the poem. Like nature itself, the idea of the Jabberwocky is mysterious and malevolent, which Carroll uses to represent the darkest intentions of humanity itself. With having this dark, mysterious tone, Carroll utilizes words such as “vorpal”, “uffish”, and”tulgey” to create a sense of entrapment for the speaker by using harsh sounds. Representing the attack that nature imposes on those that stray into its area, Carroll uses these harsh words to show how

In this stanza, the tone shifts from the tense and anxious tone of a showdown with the Jabberwock to a tone of triumph and perseverance when the son slays the Jabberwock. All in all, “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is a poem containing expert use of both figurative language and tone shifts which concludes with a theme of triumph and

The transition of the boy’s opinion of his father (from exasperation at his carelessness to admiration of his free spirit) reflects a relaxation of the boy’s severity and of the story’s serious tone. Initially, the writer uses clipped phrasing during the son’s dialogue with his father – such as the blunt “I guess” (1) and the lack of the playful response “Right, doctor” (1) – to create an

Poe provides a visual image and an association with a thing of value by referring to the bells as golden (pg.48). He describes the night as “balmy” which gives a soothing and mild feeling instead of the harsh use of “icy” in the first stanza (pg.48). Poe’s world usage and repetition help the reader realize that this is a joyous mood. This stanza symbolizes maturing, starting a family, and growing older.

“Jabberwocky” is an adventurous short poem about a boy who slays a beast. The poem is comprised of many words that are inexistent. Many of the words are combinations of two existing words combined together to create a new word that gives the reader a more vivid image. An example is the word “slithy” which is a combination of the words slimy and lithe. The poem also features mythological figures of the author’s imagination. This also adds to the enjoyment of the reader because the readers have to imagine for themselves what the creatures look like with no background knowledge. One example is the “Tumtum tree.” An actual Tumtum tree does not exist, so the reader has to imagine what it would look like to them. Also, the rhyme scheme makes the poem pleasant for listening. Lewis Carrol mixes real and inexistent words in each stanza to create a rhyming pattern. The adventurous mood, the made-up words, the creatures. and the rhyme scheme all work together in this poem with the plot to create a fun short poem.

Of Borogroves and Slithy Toves When you hear the word 'Jabberwocky' what do you think? I think of how twisted and immense Lewis Carol's depiction of Wonderland really is. People interpret "The Jabberwocky" in many different ways. Honestly, I have my own multitude of interpretations for "The Jabberwocky". I believe there are three themes that make this poem what it is.

Jabberwocky is brought to life by Carrol’s entrancing use of fantasy and onomatopoeias that optimizes and arouses vivid imagery to demonstrate the overall theme of the poem. In this

The repetition of a steady rhythm emphasizes the musical quality of the poem. Even with the variability of the last lines in the stanzas having three stresses, an iambic trimeter, this poem is a Ballad Stanza. It is akin to a folktale song and is easier to memorize. This is especially helpful since the nonsense poem is full of gibberish words and neologisms. This poem is playful, and even whimsical, and seems to be a tale about the killing of a creature, the “Jabberwocky”.

In the first stanza we get a taste of the continuous imagery to come, “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe” (Lewis 1). These first two lines set the scene for the rest of the poem, it paints a picture of the other world we are about to enter into. Lewis also uses great imagery to describe the antagonist of the poem, the Jabberwocky. “The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came” (Lewis 1). This imagery is important in the development of the poem’s plot because without it the reader would be lost in the fantastical word choice used throughout the whole

4. The poem makes me feel happy because the thought of small children not understand the tree and thinking it has feelings is cute.

It is “difficult to understand the meaning of [“Jabberwocky”]” (Dean 1). In comparison to the relatively simple poetry found in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “Jabberwocky” is certainly far more advanced. The invented words and the puzzling vocabulary pose a challenge to many readers, especially the younger ones. The main reasons that the poem can even be understood, on some level, is his placement of the words within the sentences. Additionally, the words appear to be real and sounds are used to express the meaning of the words. Other than those techniques, “Jabberwocky” would be entirely nonsensical to a majority of the readers. This pattern of difficult to understand poetry is diffused throughout Through the Looking Glass, as most of

This is the first stanza of "jabberwocky" by Lewis Carol. He was born on 1832 and died in 1898 in England. This poem was not originally a alone poem, this was a part of the book "Through the Looking Glass". Also critics were asking if this was a parody and found that it is an parody of "The Shepard and the Giant Mountians" because the story of that poem is a Shepard boy kills mythical griffin. Critcs say that Lewis Carol might have had that poem in his head while writing Jabberwocky. This was written in 1871, the Victorian times, and would be classified as a ballad stanza and a nonsense poem. It is about

3. He made sure he smiled while he spoke so that he came across well and sounded

The Jabberwocky dragon-like creature that was so dangerous and the son was so brave had slain the dragon and took the head of the Jabberwocky back to his father making his father happy. The writer wrote this poem for children to make them feel that they can be brave and not afraid to be adventurous. And they can stand up to anything in life and not run away from it.

3. Choose from the poems that have been studied and fully explain/describe the development/application of the following terms/elements within the particular