Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

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“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, is portrayed as nonsense literature because Carroll uses gibberish throughout the poem, which makes it almost impossible to understand immediately. In fact, most of his readers may have the same reaction as Alice from Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland, who is shocked at her first time reading this poem because the first stanza is full of made up words that make this poem incomprehensible. However through imagery and context, readers may be able to come up with their own interpretation on this poem. In English, nothing has a real meaning unless you make a meaning out of it. Although he first stanza of this poem is incomprehensible, it describes the setting of the story. In the second stanza, Carroll uses words