Jabberwocky
Sign in to saveright|thumb|The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.
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- Author
- Lewis Carroll
- First published
- 1881
- Editions
- 51
- Subjects
- Nonsense-verses, English, Children's poetry, English, English Fantasy poetry, English Nonsense verses, English poetry, Nonsense verses, Artists' books, Specimens
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Author
- Lewis Carroll
- Genre
- poetry
- Creator
- Lewis Carroll
- Image
- Jabberwocky.jpg
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- form of creative work
- poem
- title
- Jabberwocky
- last line
- And the mome raths outgrabe.
- first line
- ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
- derivative work
- Jabberwocky
- Commons category
- Jabberwocky
- publication date
- 1871-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- copyright status
- public domain
- present in work
- Through the Looking-Glass
- different from
- Jabberwocky
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right|thumb|The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Looking-Glass world.
In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realising that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verses on the pages are written in mirror writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of "Jabberwocky". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jabberwocky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.