The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel.

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). It is often considered to be the greatest nonsense poem written in the English language.^[1] The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs.^[2] Jabberwocky is a poem by Lewis Carroll. ... Jabberwocky, public domain, was in the original printing of Jabberwock This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less. ... Jabberwocky, public domain, was in the original printing of Jabberwock This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less. ... 1889 Self-portrait Sir John Tenniel (February 28, 1820 – February 25, 1914) was an English illustrator. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange. ... Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (IPA: ) (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll (), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of childrens literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A primary school in Český Těšín, Czech Republic. ... A portmanteau (IPA: ) is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange. ... In linguistics, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which is defined in terms of how its members combine with other grammatical kinds of expressions. ... It has been suggested that Verbal agreement be merged into this article or section. ...

Glossary

The first verse originally appeared in Mischmasch - a periodical which Carroll wrote and edited for the amusement of his family - claiming to be a piece of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Mischmasch was a periodical that Lewis Carroll wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family from 1855 to 1862. ... Old English poetry is based upon one system of verse construction which was used for all poems. ...

Several of the words in the poem are of Carroll's own invention, many of them portmanteaux. In the book, the character of Humpty Dumpty gives definitions for the nonsense words in the first stanza. In later writings, Lewis Carroll explained several of the others. The rest of the nonsense words were never explicitly defined by Carroll, who even claimed that he did not know what some of them meant. An extended analysis of the poem is given in the book The Annotated Alice, including writings from Carroll about how he formed some of his idiosyncratic words. A few words that Carroll invented in this poem (namely "chortled", "galumphing", "frabjous", and "vorpal") have entered the English language. The word jabberwocky itself is sometimes used to refer to nonsense language. A portmanteau (IPA: ) is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ... The Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carrolls major tales - Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. ... For the plasma physics software, see VORPAL. Jabberwocky illustration by John Tenniel. ...

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Bandersnatch – A swift moving creature with snapping jaws. Capable of extending its neck.^[3]

Borogove – A thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop.^[4] The initial syllable of borogove is pronounced as in borrow, rather than as in worry.^[5]

Brillig – Four o'clock in the afternoon: the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.^[4][6]

Burbled – Possibly a mixture of "bleat", "murmur", and "warble".^[7] (Burble is also an actual word, circa 1303, meaning to form bubbles as in boiling water.)

Chortled - Combination of chuckle and snort.^[4]

Frabjous - Probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous .^[8]

Frumious – Combination of "fuming" and "furious."^[5]

Galumphing - Perhaps a blend of "gallop" and "triumphant." (Used to describe a way of "trotting" down hill, while keeping one foot further back than the other. This enables the Galumpher to stop quickly)^[8]

Gimble – To make holes like a gimlet.^[4]

Gyre – To go round and round like a gyroscope.^[4][9] However, Carroll also wrote in Mischmasch that it meant to scratch like a dog.

Jubjub – A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion.^[3]

Manxome – Fearsome; the word is of unknown origin. ^[8]

Mimsy – Combination of "miserable" and "flimsy."^[4]

Mome – Possibly short for "from home," meaning that the raths had lost their way.^[4]

Outgrabe (past tense; present tense outgribe) – Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.^[4][10]

Rath – A sort of green pig.^[4] (See Origin and structure for further details.)

Slithy – Combination of "slimy" and "lithe."^[4] The i is long, as in writhe.^[5]

Toves – A combination of a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew. They are very curious looking creatures which make their nests under sundials. They live on cheese.^[4] Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves.^[5] Note that "gyre and gimble," i.e. rotate and bore, is in reference to the toves being part corkscrew, at least by Humpty Dumpty's definitions.

Tulgey - Thick, dense, dark.

Uffish – A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish.^[11]

Wabe – The grass plot around a sundial. It is called a "wabe" because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it, and a long way beyond it on each side.^[4]

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Pronunciation

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In the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll wrote: The Bellman supporting the Banker by a finger entwined in his hair The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. ...

[Let] me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves." The "i" in "slithy" is long, as in "writhe"; and "toves" is pronounced so as to rhyme with "groves." Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry." Such is Human Perversity.

Also, in an author's note (dated Christmas 1896) about Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll wrote:

The new words, in the poem "Jabberwocky", have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronunciation: so it may be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce "slithy" as if it were the two words, "sly, thee": make the "g" hard in "gyre" and "gimble": and pronounce "rath" to rhyme with "bath."

Origin and structure

The poem was written during Lewis Carroll's stay with relatives at Whitburn, near Sunderland, although the first stanza was written in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where Carroll lived as a boy.^[12] The story may have been inspired by the local Sunderland area legend of the Lambton Worm, as noted in "A Town Like Alice's" by Michael Bute (1997 Heritage Publications, Sunderland) and as later adapted in "Alice in Sunderland" by Brian Talbot. Whitburn is a village on the east coast of Northern England, in South Tyneside between Seaburn and Marsden. ... For other uses, see Sunderland (disambiguation). ... Croft-on-Tees is a village in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. ... This article is about the town in England. ... Penshaw Monument, from the south The Lambton Worm is a legend from the North East of England. ... Alice in Sunderland: an entertainment is a graphic novel by comics writer and artist Bryan Talbot. ...

The first stanza of the poem originally appeared in Mischmasch, a periodical that Carroll wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family. It was entitled "Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry." Carroll also gave translations of some of the words which are different from Humpty Dumpty's. For example, a "rath" is described as a species of land turtle that lived on swallows and oysters. Also, "brillig" is spelt with two ys rather than with two is. In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ... Mischmasch was a periodical that Lewis Carroll wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family from 1855 to 1862. ... For other uses, see Turtle (disambiguation). ... Genera Many, see text. ... For other uses, see Oyster (disambiguation). ...

Roger Lancelyn Green, in the Times Literary Supplement (March 1, 1957), and later in The Lewis Carroll Handbook (1962), suggests that the rest of the poem may have been inspired by an old German ballad, "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains." In this epic poem, "a young shepherd slays a monstrous Griffin." It was translated into English by Lewis Carroll's relative Menella Bute Smedley in 1846, many years before the appearance of the Alice books. English computer scientist and historian Sean B. Palmer notes a possible Shakespearean source.^[13] Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and childrens writer. ... The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Griffin (disambiguation). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The inspiration for the Jabberwock allegedly came from a tree in the gardens of Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll was a mathematician (under his real name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The tree in question is large and ancient with many sprawling, twisted branches somewhat suggestive of tentacles, or the Hydra of Greek mythology.^{[citation needed]} and of the Christ Church College name Christ Church Latin name Ædes Christi Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister college Trinity College, Cambridge Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR president Laura Ellis Undergraduates 426 GCR president Tim Benjamin Graduates 154 Location of Christ Church within central Oxford... This article is about the city of Oxford in England. ... The 16th-century German illustrator has been influenced by the Beast of Revelation in his depiction of the Hydra. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

Although the poem contains many nonsensical words, its structure is perfectly consistent with classic English poetry. The sentence structure is accurate (another aspect that has been challenging to reproduce in other languages), the poetic forms are observed (e.g. quatrain verse, rhymed, iambic meter), and a "story" is somewhat discernible in the flow of events. According to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass, "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!" Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. ... A rhyme is a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry. ... An iamb is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. ... Meter (British English spelling: metre) describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse. ... John Tenniel illustrated the first editions of the Alice books. ...

The narrative contained in the middle four verses of the poem, may be considered as an example of the monomyth. The monomyth (often referred to as the heros journey) is a description of a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. ...

Translations

"Jabberwocky" has become famous around the world, with translations into many languages.^[14] The task of translation is the more notable and difficult because many of the principal words of the poem were simply made up by Carroll, having had no previous meaning. Translators have generally dealt with these words by inventing words of their own. Sometimes these are similar in spelling or sound to Carroll's words while respecting the morphology of the language to be translated into. For example in Frank L. Warrin's French translation "'Twas brillig" is translated as "Il brilgue". In cases like this both the original and the invented words may echo actual words in the lexicon, but not necessarily ones with similar meanings. Translators have also invented words which draw on root words with meanings similar to the English roots used by Carroll. As Douglas Hofstadter has noted^[15] the word "slithy" echoes English words including "slimy", "slither", "slippery", "lithe" and "sly". The same French translation uses "lubricilleux" for "slithy", evoking French words like "lubrifier" (to lubricate) to give a similar impression of the meaning of the invented word. It makes a great difference whether the poem is translated in isolation or as part of a translation of the novel. In the latter case the translator must, through Humpty Dumpty, supply explanations of the invented words in the first stanza. For other uses, see Morphology. ... Look up lexicon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic. ...

Yuen Ren Chao, a Chinese linguist, translated "Jabberwocky" into Chinese by inventing characters to imitate what Rob Gifford describes as the "slithy toves that gyred and gimbled in the wabe of Carroll's original."^[16] Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任 Pinyin: Zhào Yuánrèn; WG: Chao Yüan-jen; Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jaw Yuanren) (November 3, 1892 - February 25, 1982) was a Chinese phonologist and dialectologist who shaped Gwoyeu Romatzyh. ... The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. ... Rob Gifford has been National Public Radios China Correspondent since 1999. ...

Derivative works

Jabberwocky and the characters featured within have been used in other works since its inception. Notable examples include:

• Between 1905 and 1907, Chapman Hall published a children's magazine called Jabberwock.
• In 1934, a Betty Boop short titled Betty in Blunderland was released featuring the Jabberwock as the antagonist.
• In 1943, Henry Kuttner, writing with his wife C. L. Moore as Lewis Padgett, published a science fiction short story called Mimsy were the Borogoves in the magazine Astounding, which has since been republished in several anthologies. It posits that the poem is actually a communication with hidden meaning from the future. The story was the inspiration for the 2007 film The Last Mimzy.
• In 1948, the Gaberbocchus Press was founded in London by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, and named after the Latin for 'Jabberwocky', from a later translation made by Lewis Carroll's uncle, Hassard Dodgson. In 31 years the Gaberbocchus Press published over sixty titles, including works by Alfred Jarry, Kurt Schwitters, Bertrand Russell and the Themersons themselves. Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi became one of the most celebrated plays and was published in many editions.
• In 1951, noted mystery writer Frederic Brown drew substantively on the poem for the comic mystery novel Night of the Jabberwock, in which the narrator learns that the Alice novels are not fiction but are an encoded report detailing the existence of another plane of reality.
• In the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is heard singing the poem before he materializes in front of Alice.
• In 1962, in his short story "Naudsonce," H. Beam Piper used a blend of the first few lines from "Jabberwocky" and Robert W. Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" as a demonstration to a newly encountered alien race that humans use a spoken language. The contact team member stood before the alien assemblage and solemnly intoned "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves were whooping it up in the Malemute Saloon, and the kid that handled the music box did gyre and gimble in the wabe, and back of the bar in a solo game all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe the lady that's known as Lou."
• In 1971, film director Jan Švankmajer made a 14 minute short film called "Jabberwocky" (Žvahlav aneb šaticky Slaměného Huberta) which features the whole poem. As the poem is read out, various toys come to life, dancing around. The only thing that seems to stop the toys is a black cat that appears. This animation film is available on the DVD Cinema 16: European Short Films.
• In 1977, Terry Gilliam directed a movie called Jabberwocky. A poster for the movie featured a coloured version of the Jabberwocky illustration, and the first stanza of the poem is recited at the start of the film. The movie's plot very loosely resembles that of the poem.
• In 1985 a two-part telemovie was filmed of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; it featured the Jabberwocky as the principal antagonist in the second part.
• René Clausen composed a choral piece titled Jabberwocky out of this poem.
• The computer game American Mcgee's Alice, taking place in a devious version on Wonderland, features a mangled and disfigured Jabberwocky, and a weapon called "The Jabberwock's Eyestaff".
• An episode of The Muppet Show adapted most of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, including this poem. Scooter stars as The Son with Rowlf the Dog as his father, and is accompanied by the Jabberwocky's head upon slaying the monster. As the head cavorts with Muppet Slithy Toves, Borogoves, and Mome Raths at the end, Scooter says as an aside to the audience, "I tell ya, this is the weirdest thing we've ever done on this show", referencing all the nonsense-words used in the poem. Rowlf then jokes that the Jabberwocky should have quit while he was ahead.
• "Jabberwocky" is an Olivier Wakeman and Clive Nolan Music Album (1999)
• In 2008's Randy Jackson's America's Best Dance Crew, a dance crew takes this poem to name their dance crew "Jabbawockeez".

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Reception of the poem

Jabberwocky was meant by Carroll as a parody designed to show how not to write a poem.^[17] The poem has since transcended Carroll's purpose, becoming now the subject of serious study. This transformation of perception was in a large part predicted by Gilbert K. Chesterton.^[18] According to Chesterton and Green, among others, the original purpose of Jabberwocky was to satirize pretentious poetry and ignorant literary critics, but has itself been the subject of pedestrian translations and explanations as well as being incorporated into classroom learning. Chesterton wrote in 1932, For the town of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, see Chesterton (Cambridge). ...

"Poor, poor, little Alice! She has not only been caught and made to do lessons; she has been forced to inflict lessons on others".

In the following years, individuals have taken to analyzing Carroll's nonsense words and seriously interpreting his instructions on the "correct" pronunciation of these words.

The reach of the poem

The Jabberwock as it is seen in American McGee's Alice

Since its creation, Jabberwocky has taken on some qualities of a folkloric myth or legend. The creatures and characters of the poem are often referenced or cited in popular culture, leading to many appearances in many mediums since its writing. From the Muppets[1] to Batman and rock bands, the poem continues to be invoked. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 520 pixelsFull resolution (972 × 632 pixel, file size: 470 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a sketch of the Jabberwock in American Mcgees Alice from http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 520 pixelsFull resolution (972 × 632 pixel, file size: 470 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a sketch of the Jabberwock in American Mcgees Alice from http://www. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the slang term, see Muppet (slang). ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...

Jabberwocky has been the source of countless parodies and tributes. In most cases the writers simply change the nonsense words into words relating to the parodied subject (e.g. Frank Jacobs's "Lewis Carroll as a TV Critic" in For Better or Verse). Other writers use the poem as a poetic form, much like a sonnet, and create their own nonsense words and glossaries (e.g. "Strunklemiss" by S. K. Azoulay). Frank Jacobs is MAD Magazines longest-tenured writer, having appeared in its pages for 50 years. ... Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, one of the best-known early Italian sonnet writers. ...

Due to its popularity as a poem, a multitude of role-play and video games have used the artifacts and characters of the poem in their respective universes. In particular, the "vorpal swords" or "vorpal blades" are used in Dungeons and Dragons and numerous computer games and video games. The Jabberwock monster appears in many computer games. Final Fantasies VII, IX and X feature a Bandersnatch, a large dog-like monster, but interestingly only IX has the Jabberwock. A character in the book "Alien vs Predator: Hunter's Planet" by David Bischoff and Stephani Perry, on numerous occasions remembers bits and pieces of the poem, first as a way to pass the time, then as a comparison to the grotesque form of the Xenomorph. For the plasma physics software, see VORPAL. Jabberwocky illustration by John Tenniel. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... This article is about the Final Fantasy franchise. ... on the SNES Alien vs. ... David F. Bischoff (1951–) is an American science fiction and television writer. ... Stephani Danelle Perry (credited as S.D. Perry in her works) is a novelist living in Portland, Oregon. ... The xenomorph as it appears in Alien vs. ...

Games based around this poem are also popular in the classroom. One activity that can be used to teach is to take all the nonsense words out and ask students to guess what they mean.

Military science fiction author John Ringo has based a certain portion of his Space Bubble series of books around the Jabberwocky, partially in reference to the non-sensical nature of quantum physics that the characters end up dealing with. The first novel of the series was named Into the looking Glass as a number of the Higgs Boson portals within the book were named for Carroll's portal. The following books were named Vorpal Blade and Manxome Foe. The next book is due to be The Claws that Catch. The Jabberwock has a body like a dragon and its head is more like an insect. // John Ringo is a popular American science fiction and fantasy author who writes full time. ... The Higgs boson, also known as the God particle, is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. ... For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Jabberwacky, a chatty Artificial Intelligence with a touch of wockiness
• Vorpal
• Works influenced by Alice in Wonderland

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Notes

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