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Jabberwocky and poem
He also read Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky " in a heavy Cuban accent ( he pronounced it " Habberwocky ").
Gibberish should not be confused with literary nonsense such as that used in the poem " Jabberwocky " by Lewis Carroll.
Like " Jabberwocky ," another poem published in Through the Looking Glass, " Haddocks ’ Eyes " appears to have been revised over the course of many years.
Image: TheJabberwocky. jpg | The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, including the poem " Jabberwocky ".
" Jabberwocky " is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
* " Jabberwocky " ( seen in the mirror-house ) ( Jabberwocky ( full poem ) including readings )
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, including the poem " Jabberwocky ".
The 1977 film Jabberwocky expands the story of the poem " Jabberwocky ".
The poem borrows occasionally from Carroll's short poem " Jabberwocky " in Through the Looking-Glass ( especially the poem's creatures and portmanteau words ), but it is a stand-alone work, first published in 1876 by Macmillan.
Unwinese might also be traceable to Lewis Carroll's 1871 poem, Jabberwocky.
The Cheshire Cat is heard singing the poem Jabberwocky before he materialises in front of Alice.
Lewis Carroll has been called " the king of neologistic poems " because of his poem, " Jabberwocky ", which incorporated dozens of invented words.
There are multiple allusions to stories by Lewis Carroll, such as a club the main character walks into, referred to as the Slithy Tove, which is a quote from Carroll's poem, the Jabberwocky
There is a poem called Jabberwocky about a scary monster.
Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem " Jabberwocky " ( which appears in Through the Looking-Glass ), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to " shun / The frumious Bandersnatch "— this particular portmanteau being a concise way of describing the creature's fuming and furious nature.
* a fictional creature created by Lewis Carroll that appears in his poem Jabberwocky.
Written by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, the song was a musical rendering of the poem " Jabberwocky " from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
Vorpal sword is a phrase used by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem " Jabberwocky ".
" Jabberwocky " is an 1872 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, about an encounter between a young boy and a monster called the Jabberwock.

Jabberwocky and nonsense
" Jabberwocky " is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.
Eight nonsense words from the " Jabberwocky " that do appear are bandersnatch, beamish, frumious, galumphing, jubjub, mimsiest ( which appeared as mimsy in " Jabberwocky "), outgrabe and uffish.
The first verse of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky illustrates this nonsense technique, despite Humpty Dumpty's later explanation of some of the unclear words within it:
Many examples are found in nonsense verse, such as “ Jabberwocky ”.
In Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll exploits the arbitrary nature of the sign in its use of nonsense words.
Absurdity is used in humor to make people laugh or to make a sophisticated point, for example in Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky ", a poem of nonsense verse, originally featured as a part of his absurdist novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ( 1872 ); Carroll was a logician and parodied logic using illogic and inverting logical methods.

Jabberwocky and verse
She holds a mirror to one of the poems, and reads the reflected verse of " Jabberwocky ".
In episode 28 of the animated series Young Justice titled " Earthling ", Adam Strange improvises a performance of the second verse of Jabberwocky in order to distract a patrol while on the planet Rann.
The first verse of Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll ;

Jabberwocky and Through
A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,
The 1951 animated Disney movie Alice in Wonderland also featured several elements from Through the Looking-Glass, including the poems " Jabberwocky " and " The Walrus and the Carpenter ".
John Tenniel's original illustration of " Jabberwocky " from Through the Looking-Glass features the vorpal sword.
It is notable for containing the earliest version of the poem " Jabberwocky ", which Carroll would later expand and publish in Through the Looking-Glass.

Jabberwocky and Alice
After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in " Jabberwocky " ( in the process, introducing Alice and the reader to the concept of portmanteau words ) before his inevitable fall.
In this adaptation, the Jabberwock materialises into reality after Alice reads Jabberwocky, and pursues her through the second half of the musical.
The Jabberwocky appears again, and Alice flees when it pursues her after knocking Humpty Dumpty off a wall.
Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads " Jabberwocky ".
* Jabberwocky, a character in the 2000 computer game American McGee's Alice

Jabberwocky and by
Monsters, spells, and magic items used in the game have been inspired by hundreds of individual works such as A. E. van Vogt's " Black Destroyer ", Coeurl ( the Displacer Beast ), Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " ( vorpal sword ) and the Book of Genesis ( the clerical spell ' Blade Barrier ' was inspired by the " flaming sword which turned every way " at the gates of Eden ).
It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).
In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, " Jabberwocky ", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror.
In the 1977 film Jabberwocky, Freedonia is one of the kingdoms conquered by the King Bruno the Questionable.
She is then chased by a giant bird, which she initially thought was the Jabberwocky, and meets Humpty Dumpty.
Chao 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.
Created and videotaped by WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston, Jabberwocky featured real actors and puppets and various interstitial cartoons.
* Jabberwocky ( film ), directed by Terry Gilliam
* Jabberwocky ( 1971 film ), directed by Jan Švankmajer
* Jabberwocky ( album ), by Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman

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