Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
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Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
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From the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a.k.a. Lewis Carroll.
In The Annotated Alice, critic Martin Gardner writes: “Few would dispute the fact that Jabberwocky is the greatest of all nonsense poems in English. It was so...
Jabberwocky Annotated
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Jabberwocky was written by Lewis Carroll.