Poetry Friday.

In honor of this week's debate about The Looking Glass Wars, obviously I had to go for Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky: 

        'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
              Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
            All mimsy were the borogoves,
              And the mome raths outgrabe.

            'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
              The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
            Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
              The frumious Bandersnatch!'

            He took his vorpal sword in hand:
              Long time the manxome foe he sought--
            So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
              And stood awhile in thought.

            And as in uffish thought he stood,
              The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
            Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
              And burbled as it came!

            One, two!  One, two!  And through and through
              The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
            He left it dead, and with its head
              He went galumphing back.

            'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
              Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
            O frabjous day!  Callooh!  Callay!'
              He chortled in his joy.

            'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
              Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
            All mimsy were the borogoves,
              And the mome raths outgrabe.

Comments

[Colleen]

Would you believe I had to memorize this poem in the 6th grade? I have no idea what purpose it was supposed to serve, I just remember it was harder than hell! (Aren't you impressed that I can still be open minded about Alice in Wonderland after such a horrible childhood episode?!)

[natalie_eve]

I'm currently rereading Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. My copy is annotated. The first time I read it, I remember being incredibly overjoyed because I actually knew more or less what most of it meant.

[Leila]

Colleen, you're going to totally hate me, but I voluntarily memorized Jabberwocky for a talent show in sixth grade. And it was totally hard.

God, no wonder I had hardly any friends. I was a huge nerd.

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