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What Does The Poem Jabberwocky Mean
In this part of the paper we will be analysing the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. The poem itself is good and once you know what is talking about you start to understand what it is talking about. This poem is not so good as a read if you are not ready to look up what half the poem means. The poem majorly is about triumph and glory to slay the beast so theme could be about glory or good vs. evil. Many words are old english or made up entirely of Lewis Carroll own mind, so you unless you use old english you will not understand what the poem is talking about. This poem is really hard to understand without knowing what the words are, so I probably should explain them first really I will try to explain a lot of things. There is a lot to …show more content…
Line #8 is another with the word frumious which Lewis Carroll made up as a blend between fuming and furious. Line #10 with manxome which is fearsome, line #13 which has uffish that means grumpy is my best guess. Also there is line #15 and the word tugley or thick is what I can guess, then there is the last one line #23 frabjous which is exactly what I guessed which is joyous. There are many examples of rhyming in the poem almost the entire poem rhymes with each other at some point. Not many a few two words of alliteration, but otherwise not much in this area. The poem doesn’t seem to have a good amount if any similes/metaphors if they are there, they are hidden away inside to poem. It’s very much a small story instead of what I have come to associate poems with. The poem itself is a good read and it pretty easy to understand once you get know what the words …show more content…
Lewis Carroll or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which Lewis Carroll was his pen name, was born in 1832 on the 27th of January to his father, Charles Dodgson whose father was also named Charles Dodgson I know confusing. His father was very smart and had a good academic career coming up until he married his 1st cousin. Which then prompted him to move to the country to become a parson which was a member of the clergy. Anyways, let's get off the topic of his Dad and onto him, he was the 3rd child of his parents 4 ½ year marriage. However, things did not go so well for the other two children they did not live making Lewis Carroll the oldest child of their marriage. But, that was not to be the end of it, 8 more children followed after Lewis Carroll was born. When Carroll turned 11 they moved to Croft-on-Tees, since his father had a strong standing in the church he also followed his father loving the Anglican church. He loved the church and followed his father values and

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