Lewis Carroll Research Paper

In “A Barred Owl”, Wilbur uses certain words and phrases to convey a dark, then humorous tone in the first stanza, then transitions back in the second stanza. The poem begins with a

Words that stand out to me are “Randy roosters and operatic hens”, “true songster”, and “swoops, bleats, echoes, rapidly repeated bebops-I mean rebopped bebops-...”. Most of these words are adjectives. The phrase “Randy” is describing the roosters, operatic is describing the hens, “true songster” is describing Bird, and the last quote is describing what Bird’s music sounded like. The language in these words are general and specific, when talking about the last quote, where Bird’s the sound of music is described.

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

For instance, when Dr. Seuss rhymed in The Lorax, he didn’t create new words to rhyme with authentic words, yet in The Sneetches, he invented new words to rhyme with specific words. For example, in The Sneetches, Dr. Seuss stated, “And it berked, and it bopped them about, but the thing really worked!” Dr. Seuss created the word “berked” to make sure that the flow of the rhyme scheme would be consistent. When he rhymed in The Lorax, he used relevant words and the rhyme scheme stayed persistent. For instance, in The Lorax, Dr. Seuss affirmed, “Don’t knock at his door. He stays in his Lerkim on top of his store. He stays in his Lerkim, cold under the floor, where he makes his own clothes out of miff-muttered moof.” Even though Dr. Seuss devised new words in the story, the abstract words did not rhyme with any other words or phrases. Dr. Suess also cogitated many other aspects of each story, such as the characters.

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 storyline and themes from "Jabberwocky" bring readers to a deeper understanding about the use of sound and language. Corresponding with the scary, unfamiliar place introduced in the first stanza of the poem, readers enter a foreign place of nonsense as they struggle with reading the first few words of the poem. As the swordsman’s teacher or father instructs him to beware of the beast in the second stanza, readers are leery at this point to continue such a jumble of convention and nonsense found in words like "manxome" and "vorpal" (118). As the swordsman divides the Jabberwock in two with his sword in the fifth stanza, readers begin to divide the portmanteaus, such as "chortled," into two root words. Readers identify with the joy the

The author frequently uses words in combinations that startle and disturb. Note the following: like a peacock trapped in a turkey pen; hip-high, sheep slaughtering snows; land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron; paws used as though they are surgical instruments. The words themselves are not unusual; the combinations are. Why? Incongruity? Alliteration? Connotation of violence?

Thesis Statement- Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, though created in different time periods, share a lot of the same literary techniques and ideas. However, there are also many differences in the way word choice is used, the overall tone of the story, and whether or not there is a moral of the story.

O’Brien’s exceptional word choice was a driving factor in creating the mood; words/phrases such as

Well, “The Lorax” and “Jabberwocky” are not all that different. They both have the use of nonsense words! “The Lorax” has many nonsense words such as “gruvvulous” and “snuvv”. Organisms have nonsense names too like “Bar-ba-loot” and “Swomee swans”. “Jabberwocky” has more use of nonsense words but still is similar to “The Lorax” in this way. Words used are “vorpal” and “gyre” and “wabe”. Organisms are also named with nonsense words for example, “Bandersnatch”, “Tumtum tree”, “Jubjub bird”. Even the title is a word not known to be! At last, a similarity! You didn’t think these stories were all that different, did you?

“in Just-” by E. E. Cummings, certain words are used based on the audial sense they give the reader. For example, when Cummings mentions “eddieandbill” (6), he runs the names together because it gives the reader a sense of how unimportant the actual names are – the point of the phrase is the children, not what they are called. He also uses nonsense words like “puddle-wonderful” (10) and “mud- // luscious” (2-3) to give the reader a sense of childlike innocence. Rather than use descriptors like drenched, soaked, or waterlogged, he uses words that don’t exist, like those made up by a child. These words are not only silly, but somewhat pleasing to the ear. The sense of innocent joy at the call of the balloon-man felt by “eddieandbill” (6) and

Nonsense words are something that will confuse you and much more they also both occur in the Jabberwocky and Lorax. They both have words like biggering and snickety snack. These are two totally made up words one meaning growing bigger and the other the sound of a blade.Nonsense words contribute greatly to both stories greatly whether it is two

In contrast to Lear, Carroll’s nonsense focuses mainly on entertaining with illogical tales that are darker and more disturbing as demonstrated in the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2009). This dark and disturbing focus is demonstrated in the scene when, “The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her [Alice] for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, ‘Off with her head’ ”(Carroll 72)! Edward Lear’s, The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) that was published in the collection Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (1871) uses text that are less disturbing and dark. The poem, in summary, is about the love between an owl and a pussycat and their marriage, with the turkey overseeing the wedding (Lear 1871). The wedding ring comes from a pig that sells them the ring (Lear 1871). The poem incorporates anthropomorphic animals, the character’s Owl and the Pussycat can talk, the Owl sings and plays the guitar and the Pig handles money transactions (Lear 1871). The poem with its simple words, including made-up words by Lear such as “runcible” (Lear 1871), used to describe a spoon, seems like a silly poem, however reflects the Victorian era. The Owl and the Pussycat eloped, went out to sea in a boat, took money and escaped their society (Lear 1871). In particular, the Owl is a different species than a pussycat. Lear’s text accepts the marriage through the support of the pig and the turkey that work to help them to be together (Lear 1871). Lear

4. The whole poem has an apostrophe. The Jabberwock is a metaphor for the despair of having to continually count meters and create rhyme. Since the despair cannot do that itself, Carroll created a personification by turning despair into the Jabberwock.

Lewis Carroll was born on January 27, 1832, as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson to a family of workers in the army and Church (and a whole family full of Charles’). His great-grandfather, also Charles Dodgson, had been a bishop. His grandfather, another Charles Dodgson, had been an army captain and ended up being killed in battle, leaving two children behind. The elder son, Charles, went to Westminster and then Oxford. This Charles married his cousin in 1827 and became a country parson.