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"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, the": make the "g" hard in "gyre" and "gimble": and pronounce "rath" to rhyme with "bath".(105)

"Jabberwocky", the strange nonsense poem made more trouble than anything else in the book and some wild claims were made about its origin. Carroll had added to it a few years later from " Mischmasch" during a verse-making game played with his cousins when he was staying with them one summer holiday. In the book Humpty Dumpty actually gives Alice his explanation of the

"Jabberwocky". He explains that the brillig is four o’clock, and this is the time when one starts making dinner, and then he goes on to explain the combination of lithe and slimy "You see- it’s like a portmanteau- there are two meanings packed up into one word"(Carroll 161).Critics have come to the conclusion that while some of Carroll’s nonsense does make sense, the "Jabberwocky" is just plain nonsense. Objects of words in a game of nonsense and the mind uses words so that " its tendency toward order [will] engage its contrary tendency towards disorder, keeping the latter perpetually in play and so in check"(Sewell 48). Carroll uses lanuage so that words and structure maintain a balance between order and disorder in relation to each other, and the understanding of Carroll’s poetry.

There can be sense made out of all nonsense, and some good and justified illustrations of this can be shown through Carroll’s poetry . Sometimes it is merely just a game and the " active manipulation , serving no useful purpose, of a certain object or class of objects, concrete or mental, within a limited field of space and time…"(Sewell 27). Either way Lewis Carroll has taken his life experiences and passions and twisted them together with some sense and nonsense to create an interesting story and poetry that will always be open for many differing interpretations.

These differing views can only be made by each individual reader. The reader can take this

nonsense and make sense of it, or they can play along with the word games, and have a few

confused laughs.

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Landow, George P. "Victorian and Victorianism" 23 Mar 2000. The Victorian Web.

Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense London: Chatto and Windus LTD., 1952.

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