{"id":1767,"date":"2017-01-05T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T10:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2023-11-17T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:20:15","slug":"the-jabberwocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"The Jabberwocky &#8211; Lewis Carroll (1871)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class= \"left-column\" style=\"background-color:#cce5ff; font-size:14pt; color:#191970; font-family: palatino;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TheJabberwocky.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/TheJabberwocky.png\" alt=\"TheJabberwocky\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2023\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2019Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br \/>\n      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<br \/>\nAll mimsy were the borogoves,<br \/>\n      And the mome raths outgrabe. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeware the Jabberwock, my son!<br \/>\n      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!<br \/>\nBeware the Jubjub bird, and shun<br \/>\n      The frumious Bandersnatch!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He took his vorpal sword in hand;<br \/>\n      Long time the manxome foe he sought\u2014<br \/>\nSo rested he by the Tumtum tree<br \/>\n      And stood awhile in thought. <\/p>\n<p>And, as in uffish thought he stood,<br \/>\n      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,<br \/>\nCame whiffling through the tulgey wood,<br \/>\n      And burbled as it came! <\/p>\n<p>One, two! One, two! And through and through<br \/>\n      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!<br \/>\nHe left it dead, and with its head<br \/>\n      He went galumphing back. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd hast thou slain the Jabberwock?<br \/>\n      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!<br \/>\nO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!\u201d<br \/>\n      He chortled in his joy. <\/p>\n<p>\u2019Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<br \/>\n      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<br \/>\nAll mimsy were the borogoves,<br \/>\n      And the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"right-column\" style=\"background-color:#cce5ff; font-size:14pt; color:#191970;font-family: palatino;\">\n<p><b> Commentary <\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>The Jabberwocky<\/em>, as a nonsense poem, is an extreme form of literature that inherently demands decipherment, reminiscent of a puzzle or brain teaser. Here, ambiguity is used as a technique rather than a theme, so whilst the rhyme scheme and portrayal of a terrifying beast is regular and straightforward, the coinages Carroll uses, infused with experimental onomatopoeia, makes for a complex read. With words such as \u201csnicker-snack\u201d (l.18), the authorial intention seems to be simply to provide a narrative for the reader to embellish with their own thoughts and ideas. Given the multiplicity of the words&#8217; meaning deep-rooted in the poem, any deciphered interpretation is negotiable. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you solve this riddle of words..?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,22,25,27,28,29,30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-2017","category-2017-2018","category-2018-2019","category-2019-2020","category-2020-2021","category-2021-2022","category-2022-2023","category-2023-2024","category-enigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}