This week we started to study poetry, and we had a discussion about the ways that people use language to manipulate the ways we see the world.
Lewis Carroll wrote a poem called The Jabberwocky, which uses nonsensical words to tell a story of a mythical creature called a Jabberwock.
If students did not complete the following questions, it was assigned for homework this weekend:
1. What is this poem about?
2. How do you know? In what ways does the writer give you clues about the content?
3. Choose three nonsensical words (words that were made up by the writer, and do not make sense in English) and write a definition for each.
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.
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