Essay on Nonsense Language in Carrolls Jabberwocky -- Carroll Jabberw

The Importance of Nonsense Language and Sounds in Carrolls Jabberwocky Wn a bby fst ts 2 kmnikt the wrds snd gibberish. No one knows what the baby is trying to say. The poem, Jabberwocky, written by Lewis Carroll, uses nonmeaningful speech to either frustrate or amuse the representer. When trying to judge the nonsense row in the poem, the sounds of the course come out as gibberish. The sounds are the important element of the poem. Often, people like to hear poets read in styles they cannot understand. A woman leaving a reading by the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz said she was glad hed read some of his work in Polish because the language sounded exciting, like horse hooves over cobblestones. Sometimes a poem can mean little or nothing, yet the arousal of haggling alone wins our attention. Some poets can even invent words themselves. Carroll combines two words (portmanteau) into one word to compose those weird sounds and words in the poem. In a unique way the meaningless word s combine with recognizable words to create a poem around comprehensible. The language and sounds allow a reviewer to reflect back on the concept of how to communicate Carrolls theme of survial of the fittest, and besides the battle between animals, Carroll creates a battle for the reader to understand the language and sounds. For an animal or reader to survive in Carolls poem it must kill before being killed, or understand the language before reaching the end. The setting of such(prenominal) excerption is the forest, and Carolls forest is a fantasy land where words are foreign to the reader. He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back, (Carroll, 36) has reference to survival of the fittest. The head becomes the trophy of ... ...tree diagram, (Carroll, 36) describes the actual skill of using a tree for camouflage. The tree is the Dumdum and covers up the hunters stupidity. Is the Jabberwocky harmless? The forest people could stool invented a wise tale about the creature for amusement. What the hunter killed was sidetrack imagination and part real the way Carrolls poem is. The sounds and nonsense language are important elements of the poem. At the same time, we can use the grammar of the censure to help us imagine the meanings of the nonsense words. The poem is playful and baffle at the same time. We might say it plustrate. Works Cited Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. The Discovery Of Poetry. second Edition. Ed. Frances Mayes. Orlando Harcourt Brace & Company, 1987. Hunter, Paul J. Footnote. The Norton Introduction to Poetry. 6th Edition. Chicago Norton, 1996.