Friday 20 May 2011

Jabberwocky comment part 2 J.S.

Lewis Carol wrote many famous books including:
1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1869 Phantasmagoria (A collection of poems)
1872 Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there
1876 The Hunting of the Snark (A long nonsense poem written in a mock-heroic style)
1879 Euclid and his Modern Rivals (a play written in defence of Euclid's approach to the teaching of geometry)
1879 Doublets (a word game)
1883 Rhyme? And Reason? (A poetry collection - includes The Hunting of the Snark as illustrated by Henry Holiday as well as Phantasmagoria and other poems)
1885 A Tangled Tale (A series of short stories, each containing one or more puzzles.)
1886 The Game of Logic. (An elementary text on logic)
1886 Alice's Adventures under Ground (The facsimile of the original manuscript of the story as presented to Alice Liddell)
1889 The Nursery "Alice" (An adaption of the Alice for younger children)
1889 Sylvie and Bruno 1893 Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (The second and concluding part of the Sylvie and Bruno story)
1896 Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary (The first part of Carroll's major textbook on logic)

The poem reminds me of hiis books in so many ways, because when you hear the verse
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves,
 Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

It's funny, because in the Alice and wonderland stories there are different creatures and vocabulary, for example in Alice and wonderland you have the wicked queen, all the different animals and the mad hatter, the vocabulary used to describe those charecters is somewhat like the vocabulary in this poem, most of the words are not even real.
It uses diefferent vocabulary 

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