SUBJECT: ENGLISH

CLASS: VI
TOPIC:JABBERWOCKY BY
LEWIS CARROLL
SUB TOPIC:
INTRODUCTION
JABBERWOCKY BY
LEWIS CARROLL

ABOUT
THE
POET/
AUTHOR
 ABOUT Lewis Carroll is the
pseudonym of
THE mathematician Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson,
AUTHOR which he adopted when
publishing his famous
children’s novels and
nonsense verse.
 The son of a Cheshire
ABOUT parson, Dodgson grew up
in a large family which
THE enjoyed composing
magazines and putting on
AUTHOR plays. In 1851, he went to
Christ Church, Oxford. By
1855, he was a fellow ,
lecturing in mathematics.
 He occupied a tower in
ABOUT the college for the rest of
THE his life. He wrote many
books on mathematics
AUTHOR and logic, and enjoyed
inventing puzzles and
games and playing
croquet.
 His love of paradox and
nonsense and his fondness
for small children led to
ABOUT the writing of Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland
THE (1865), a story which he
began while rowing
AUTHOR Lorina, Alice, and Edith,
the three small daughters
of the College Dean H G
Liddell, up the Thames for
a picnic near Binsey.
 A sequel, Through the
Looking Glass and What
Alice Found There,
appeared in 1871.
ABOUT Interviewed when she
was old, Alice
THE remembered him as tall
and slender, with
AUTHOR blue/grey eyes, longish
hair, and ‘carrying
himself upright, almost
more than upright, as if
he had swallowed a
poker’.
 ABOUT He published
Phantasmagoria and
THE Other Poems in 1869,
The Hunting of the
AUTHOR Snark in 1876 and
Sylvie and Bruno in
1889.
 Nonsense verse,
NONSENSE humorous or whimsical
verse that differs from
VERSE other comic verse in its
resistance to any rational
or allegorical
interpretation.
 Though it often makes use
NONSENSE of coined, meaningless
words, it is unlike the
VERSE gibberish of children’s
rhymes in that it makes
these words sound
purposeful.
 In 1846, when
The Book of Nonsense
NONSENSE was published; this was a
collection of limericks
VERSE composed and illustrated
by the artist Edward Lear
, who first created them
in the 1830s for the
children of the earl of
Derby.
 This was followed by the
inspired fantasy of
Lewis Carroll, whose
Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland (1865) and
NONSENSE Through the Looking-
Glass (1872) both
VERSE contain brilliant
nonsense rhymes.
“Jabberwocky,” from
Through the Looking-
Glass, may be the best-
known example of
nonsense verse.
NONSENSE
VERSE A few examples....
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