Jabberwocky Poem | A Poem Written By Lewis Carroll
JABBERWOCKY POEM – In this topic, we are going to know and read the full text of the poem Jabberwocky which is written by Lewis Carroll.
It is, as mentioned above, written by Lewis Carroll and is about the killing of the creature the “Jabberwock”.
If you are familiar of the creature, that’s because it is from the Alice books made by the author himself and is mentioned throughout the said books.
It is considered one of the greatest nonsense English poems. A nonsense poem is a form of nonsense literature which employs strong prosodic elements such as thythm and rhyme.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Poetry Foundation:
’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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