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The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Jabberwocky is a 'nonsense poem' written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. All the same, it does strangely make a kind of sense.
In an early scene of Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds the verse Jabberwocky.[1] She says (p24) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are.” This is now thought to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.[2][3] Its playful, whimsical language has given us nonsense words, portmanteau words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
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Few would dispute that Jabberwocky is the greatest of all nonsense poems in English.
- ↑ Rundus, Raymond J. (October 1967). ""O Frabjous Day!": Introducing Poetry". The English Journal. 56 (7). National Council of Teachers of English: 958–963. doi:10.2307/812632. JSTOR 812632.