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Jabberwocky This whole poem is nonsense Wait what No its true Jabberwocky is in all probability the most famous nonsense poem ever written in English The vast majority of the words in this poem are clever inventions of its author This makes sense if you consider the fact that it was ID: 789403

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Slide1

Jabberwocky By: Lewis Carroll

Slide2

Jabberwocky

This

whole poem is nonsense.

Wait, what?

No, it's true. "Jabberwocky" is, in all probability, the most famous nonsense poem ever written in English. The vast majority of the words in this poem are clever inventions of its author. This makes sense if you consider the fact that it was originally published in its entirety in the 1871 book

Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll. Does that sound familiar? It should. With its companion piece,

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

, "Jabberwocky" is the basis for the wildly popular Disney movie

Alice in Wonderland

.

Slide3

Lewis Carroll or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?

Carroll created the pen name Lewis Carroll by translating his first and middle names into Latin, reversing their order, and loosely translating them back into English. He published under this pseudonym to protect his privacy.

Slide4

Lewis Carroll

Carroll, whose real name was Charles

Lutwidge

Dodgson, was born in the English village of

Daresbury

. He was the eldest son (out of 11 children) of

a minister

.

To entertain his siblings, Carroll wrote stories and poems and drew pictures, which he collected in magazines that he gave out to the family.

Carroll was a student at Rugby School, where he excelled academically but was the victim of bullying. He went on to study mathematics and classical studies at Christ Church, Oxford.

Slide5

So nonsense has a point?

Jabberwocky," despite its goofy language, is about facing your demons. It's a strange world we live in, filled with all sorts of unknowns, and every now and again you're bound to round a corner and come face to face with something horrible (metaphorically, we hope). But we all have "

vorpal

blades"

(L. 18

) lying around somewhere, just waiting to vanquish our awful foe. And when we do, it's

awesome

. We're

awesome

. And we go along our merry way.

Slide6

So much nonsense!

Identify the unknown words in the text. What part of speech do you think they are – noun, verb, adjective or adverb?

brillig

-_________

mimsy

-_________

slithy

-_________

borogoves

- _________

toves

- ________

outgrabe

- _________

gyre - _________

mome

-_________

gimble

-_________

raths

- ________

wabe

- ________

How did you decide what part of speech they were?

Slide7

Decide on the meaning of the words.

brillig

-_______________________________

slithy

- _______________________________

toves

- _______________________________

gyre - _______________________________

gimble

-_______________________________

wabe

- _______________________________

mimsy

-_______________________________

mome

- _______________________________

raths

- _______________________________

borogoves

- ___________________________

outgrabe

– ___________________________

How did you decide the meaning of the words?

Slide8

There is one documented explanation of the first stanza by Carroll himself. He gives us a summary through the character of Humpty-Dumpty (yup, the one who fell off the wall) in

Through the Looking-Glass

. For what it's worth (after all, nothing is entirely reliable in Carroll's Wonderland), I present to you a summary of the first stanza vocabulary according to Humpty:

Slide9

Brillig

: four o' clock in the afternoon, because that's when you start

broiling

things for dinner

Slithy

:

lithe

and

slimy

Toves

: "something like badgers, something like lizards, and something like corkscrews" (125)

Gyre

and

gimble

: to

gyre

is to go around like a gyroscope, and

gimble

is to make holes in something

Wabe

: the grass plot surrounding a sun-dial (so named because it goes a

ways

in each direction)

Mimsy

: combination (called a

portmanteau

) of

flimsy

and

miserable

Slide10

Borogoves

: a "thin, shabby-looking bird" that resembles a mop

Mome

raths

: "well, a

rath

is a sort of green pig, but

mome

I'm not sure about, I think it's short for 'from home' – meaning they'd lost their way, you know" (126)

Outgrabe

: a combination of whistling and bellowing with a sneeze in the middle (apparently the present tense of this verb is

outgribe

, meaning

outgrabe

is past tense, a little like

give

and

gave

).

Slide11

Now that we have read this poem that makes no sense, it is time for some nonsense.

Slide12

Typical Student Questions

Where am I going to see a stupid Jabberwocky in the “real world?!”

Why, in the movie! Duh!!!

Reading comprehension even if it is nonsense can be a money-maker!