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Jabberwocky Research Paper

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Lewis Carroll was known for many things but he was most known for his books "Alice in wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found." The poem "Jabberwocky was part of the book "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found. A bit of history on the poem was that it was first introduced with by Alice herself. She found the a book that looked like it was written in a strange language but Alice realized it was actually a mirror book meaning she had to put it up against a mirror to be able to read it.
The piece "Jabberwocky" is considered to be one of the greatest nonsense poems that was written in English. At first I didn 't know what a nonsense poem was when I was doing my research about the poem. What a nonsense poem is that it uses rhythm and rhyme to get the readers attention. Some other authors/writers who wrote nonsense literature were Dr.Seuss, Woody Allen, John Lennon, and my favorite author besides Carroll, Sherl Silverstein. Carroll has many other pieces that are nonsense poems but I will be breaking apart "Jabberwocky" instead.
"Jabberwocky" to me seems to be a play on words because the beginning of the name is jabber which means to talk rapidly. Another word that is similar to jabberwocky is jabberwockies which means writing …show more content…

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch!" The stanza after warning the son about the creatures seems to be kind of telling us that the son is getting ready to battle the creatures or just the Jabberwock. The next stanza tells us that it is the Jabberwock that the son is about to fight. You should know though that the Jabberwock is not an easy creature to kill. The Jabberwock is a chimera it has a body of a dragon, a fish like head, it 's has talon like hand and wings and the most badass thing about it is it wears a

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