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Jabberwocky
nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jabberwocky is a 'nonsense poem' written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. All the same, it does strangely make a kind of sense.
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The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel
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Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
In an early scene of Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds the verse Jabberwocky.[1] She says (p24) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideasāonly I don't exactly know what they are.ā This is now thought to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.[2][3] Its playful, whimsical language has given us nonsense words, portmanteau words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".