Nonsense+Poetry

For this project, I wanted to research and find out more information about the illusive Jabberwock. This is a mystical character that was first reported by the famous poet, Lewis Carroll. He is the one that was responsible for the creation of Alice in Wonderland, and this creature made it into this well-known story. This account of the creature put it in the same category as Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster. His report of the beast is written in the form of a nonsense poem in order to hide the true meaning of the Jabberwock, and because his encounter with the beast left his mind speechless as to how to describe the animal.

Here I have included the poem, as well as some of the other information regarding this creature in hopes that someone will be able to capture a live Jabberwock some day.

-Charlotte Wright, President of the Institute for Research and Analysis of Mystical Beings (I.R.A.M.B.)

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How to interpret the account?

Eye Witness' Renderings of the Jabberwock

The Carroll Effect

Other's Responses to the Account in Poem