Today I am in the mood for something silly so I chose Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.” While attending the University of Colorado in Denver I was required to take a class in theater fro my communication degree. I think the instructor was a frustrated actor because she always had us warm up before class by recitingthis poem while gyrating and writhing around the stage. It always felt weird but I still find the poem very silly, which suits me, just fine today.
Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree.
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came wiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
The poem was taken from this web site: http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/439.html
3 comments:
Thanks for the post. I had forgotten about the Jabberwocky.
One of my favorite poems as a kid.
I love that poem. I fact, I have a recitation of it in my MP3 player, which turns a head when the RANDOM function selects it.
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