Jabberwocky Essay
Lewis Carroll uses a variety of aspects of language such as made up words and onomatopoeia and structural devices such as repetition to convey the idea of man vs. nature in a creative and humorous manner while retaining the severity of the topic in the form of satire in the poem Jabberwocky.
Throughout the poem, Carroll refers to odd animals with made up names in order to portray the mysteriousness of nature. By using names of animals that don't exist, it shows that the base of conflict between man and nature is the fact that man doesn't understand what is around him. The poem doesn't describe what makes the "Jubjub bird" something to be wary of or what makes the Bandersnatch "frumious." It just says enough to make the reader or the "boy" the speaker is talking to afraid …show more content…
This characterizes the boy as clumsy or possibly stupid as he must walk heavily to try and carry the enormous head of the Jabberwock all the way back home. In the line
"The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!" the sound the blade causes the reader to think of something like a pair of scissors snipping which shows man winning
The repetition of the first stanza at the end of the poem serves to convey that this is a repeated process. It shows that even after the boy has killed the Jabberwock, the "borogroves" were still "mimsy" and "the slithy toves" still "gyred and gimbled in the wabe." Everything was just as it was before; and so the battle between man and nature went on as it always will. A boy
will come along and slay the Jabberwock and then another Jabberwock will come along and another boy will slay it. It is a cycle that always has been and always will be.
Made up words, onomatopoeia, and repetition are all used to convey the idea of man vs. nature in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky in an entertaining way. They blended together to create an atmosphere of satirical silliness that laid plain the severity of the age old battle and retained the attention of reader's of all
Throughout the poem, Carroll refers to odd animals with made up names in order to portray the mysteriousness of nature. By using names of animals that don't exist, it shows that the base of conflict between man and nature is the fact that man doesn't understand what is around him. The poem doesn't describe what makes the "Jubjub bird" something to be wary of or what makes the Bandersnatch "frumious." It just says enough to make the reader or the "boy" the speaker is talking to afraid …show more content…
This characterizes the boy as clumsy or possibly stupid as he must walk heavily to try and carry the enormous head of the Jabberwock all the way back home. In the line
"The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!" the sound the blade causes the reader to think of something like a pair of scissors snipping which shows man winning
The repetition of the first stanza at the end of the poem serves to convey that this is a repeated process. It shows that even after the boy has killed the Jabberwock, the "borogroves" were still "mimsy" and "the slithy toves" still "gyred and gimbled in the wabe." Everything was just as it was before; and so the battle between man and nature went on as it always will. A boy
will come along and slay the Jabberwock and then another Jabberwock will come along and another boy will slay it. It is a cycle that always has been and always will be.
Made up words, onomatopoeia, and repetition are all used to convey the idea of man vs. nature in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky in an entertaining way. They blended together to create an atmosphere of satirical silliness that laid plain the severity of the age old battle and retained the attention of reader's of all