🔵 Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Explanation Analysis Jabberwocky Poem Lewis Caroll

Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Explanation Analysis Jabberwocky Poem Lewis Carroll
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves - Explanation and Analysis of Jabberwocky Poem by Lewis Carroll

’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 whiffling 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.

Humpty Dumpty's Explanation"

You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir", said Alice. "Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem 'Jabberwocky'?

""Let's hear it", said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the poems that ever were invented--and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

"This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"That's enough to begin with", Humpty Dumpty interrupted: "there are plenty of hard words there. 'Brillig' means four o'clock in the afternoon--the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."

"That'll do very well", said Alice: "and 'slithy'?"

"Well, 'slithy' means 'lithe and slimy'. 'Lithe' is the same as 'active'. You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.

"I see it now", Alice remarked thougthfully: "and what are 'toves'?"

"Well, 'toves' are something like badgers--they're something like lizards--and they're something like corkscrews."

"They must be very curious creatures. ""They are that", said Humpty Dumpty: "also they make their nests under sun-dials--also they live on cheese."

"And what's to 'gyre' and to 'gimble'?"

"To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To 'gimble' is to make holes like a gimlet."

"And 'the wabe' is the grass plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?" said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.

"Of course it is. It's called 'wabe', you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it--"

"And a long way beyond it on each side", Alice added.

"Exactly so. Well then, 'mimsy' is 'flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round--something like a live mop."

"And then 'mome raths'?" said Alice. "If I'm not giving you too much trouble."

"Well a 'rath' is a sort of green pig, but 'mome' I'm not certain about. I think it's sort for 'from home'--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know."

"And what does 'outgrabe' mean?"

"Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"

"I read it in a book", said Alice

.--Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

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[iwantcheesypuffs]

Vorpal blade is an exceedingly sharp blade. This isn't some off-the-shelf blade. This blade was made of the highest quality so as to be able to slay fearsome beasts - like Jabberwock.

[Nicoabc]

Thanks a lot, I was really tensed up before this video, it's a poem in my school book. Wonderful poem, brilliant explanation

[luzid]

sang this in choir. was a breath of fresh air after all the songs in classical latin

[geethasrini]

Oh my goodness thank you ever so much for this, it was hard to find a good explanation video!

[DavidMusquiz-gltv]

I was in 7th grade when I had to memorize this poem I am 51 now and still remember this poem never really understood thank you for explaining it

[GaryTongue-zndi]

8:42 Brillig does NOT mean Shiny! NOT EVEN CLOSE! It is explained by Humpty Dumpty in the second book! It means four o'clock in the afternoon, the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.

[pmull]

Thanks for the insight! I prefer to think of birds and squirrels in the first and last stanzas. Some peace in the midst of chaos.

[alyssacole]

Omg thanks for helping me with my school work

[kate_cooper]

I always thought of a "Vorpal" sword as being a specific type of sword of high quality, like a Valyrian steel sword or a Hattori Hanzo sword. Very effective for killing dangerous monsters.

[AindriasHirt]

Chortle is a word. It is a combination of chuckle and choke. It's when you laugh and snort (snore) as you laugh. Humpty Dumpty is English orthography for the French "Un petit d'un petit."

[Yusei]

I am studying that poem for university, first time i see something like that no sense poems are really interesting

[carolinaplaceres]

You are fantastisc. Love it. Thanks ❤❤

[GaryTongue-zndi]

Beamish means: beaming and bright with optimism, promise, or achievement!

[gm]

Thank you so much for this, it really helped me to understand this poem

[countbeauty]

Humpty's explanation is overkill for me. I thought merely that the "toves" are just something like toads.

[nvdawahyaify]

I seriously thought that the poem was in scots. Not gaelic, but the germanic tongue from Scotland. It's sometimes said to be a dialect of English, but some consider it a separate language.

The song auld lang syne is in scots.

The word galumphing is a real word. It means "moving in a clumsy, ponderous, or noisy manner"(Oxford English dictionary).
It's the term for the way that raccoons and skunks move.

[riteshrathod]

Same thing it's in my English literature exam

[ixneourwo]

Slithy is a combined word of slimy and lithe

[GaryTongue-zndi]

A Mome Rath is a sort of Green Pig.

Slithy Toves are curious creatures that are something like badgers, something like lizards, and something like corkscrews. Borogoves are Shabby looking birds!

[GaryTongue-zndi]

Whiffling is a real word and doesn't mean to whistle. It means to make a soft sound or to move quietly.