![]() ![]() The rest of the poem was written during Carroll's stay with relatives at Whitburn, near Sunderland. The stanza is printed first in faux-mediaeval lettering as a "relic of ancient Poetry" (in which þ e is a form of the word the) and printed again "in modern characters". Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as " galumphing" and " chortle". "Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape. ![]() She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of "Jabberwocky". Realising that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verses on the pages are written in mirror-writing. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-glass world. It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). " Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". ![]() The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 ![]()
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