The poem I chose for this assignment is "The Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll. According to The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, whose pen-name was Lewis Carroll was a very well-known author during the Victorian Era. He was born in 1832 and was the third of eleven children. He and his siblings were mostly home schooled so Dodgson helped keep himself and his siblings entertained with stories and drawings he contributed to a family magazine. Dodgson enjoyed making up stories for children, three such children being Alice Liddell and her sisters, which is whom "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" were created for. After a very brief life spent enchanting children and their parents with fantastical tales about scary Jabberwocky's and disappearing cats, Carroll succumbed to bronchitis in 1898 (858-859). .
"The Jabberwocky," which was written in 1872, and is one of Carroll's most well-known works, is about a boy whose father warns him about the horrible beasts that live in the forest. The boys decides to go into the forest and confront the worst beast within, which is the Jabberwocky. He fights the beast and cuts off its head, then takes it home to his father. His father is overjoyed that the boy killed the beast and celebrates his kill. This poem appeared within a book Carroll wrote, "Through the Looking Glass." In this story, Alice looks down on a table and sees a book with this poem, but all the writing is backwards. This is actually a good way to look at Wonderland, as a backwards place, where the abnormal is the norm. Where else would you have a smoking caterpillar and a cat who can fly and disappear? This gives the reader an idea of Carroll having a very vivid imagination, which you need when writing children's stories. After the class discussion on this poem, it was noticeable that there may be a different meaning to each reader.
Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky is a difficult piece of literature to read. ... Next, the father tells the son to "Beware the Jabberwocky, my son!". We now know that whatever this Jabberwocky may be, it is a dangerous thing or creature. ... The boy takes the Jabberwocky's head back to his father. ... Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky was a very hard piece of literature to read, and even harder to understand. ...
Another poem which gives a vivid description of a monstrous creature is the "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. ... The "Jabberwocky" is about a boy who fails to listen to his father's warnings about the fearful Jabberwocky. ... In this poem Lewis Carroll uses onomatopoeia throughout the poem. ... Carroll uses nonsense rhyme throughout the poem: making the poem more original. ... In conclusion, both the "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll and "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson create an effective idea of a mythical monster. ...
Differences At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children's stories by Lewis Carroll. ... Carroll's Wonderland is a place where Alice finds many of the characters difficult and odd. ... As Alice enters through the glass mirror, her surroundings become reversed and Carroll repeats this image of reversal throughout the story in the poem of the Jabberwocky, the mirror images of Tweedledee and Tweedledum, as well as when the White Queen shrieks first and picks herself later. This use of reversal is not found in Carroll's Alice's Adventures in W...
Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky There was a book lying near Alice on the table and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, "--for it's all in some language I don't know", she said to herself. ... However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate--" --Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll A very interesting poem is this one indeed. ... The poem Jabberwocky is a very mo...
Research and Critical Reflection In 2010, OFSTED produced a report about creative approaches to teaching and learning with a focus on raising standards. They visited 44 schools, 19 of which were secondary schools that had received good or outstanding from their most recent inspection. Where creative approaches to teaching and learning had the biggest impact and the greatest improvements shown was in schools that were considered to be in challenging circumstances: "(schools) with a higher than average proportion of pupils eligible for free schools meals, low attainment on entry and high ra...
