{"id":38620,"date":"2020-11-26T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38620"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:10:29","slug":"having-fun-with-jabberwocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/11\/26\/having-fun-with-jabberwocky\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Fun With “Jabberwocky”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel in 1871<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the last few weeks I’ve posted twice under the title “O Frabjous Day”, here<\/a> and then again last week, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first post<\/a>, I also referred to the “…vorpal keyboard going snicker-snack so the author could go galumphing back to the main manuscript without further delay.”<\/em><\/p>\n

To which Kristen, in the second post<\/a>, queried whether my vorpal keyboard ever does go snicker-snack — and I replied with reference to “slithy toves” and “uffish thought” and the “manxome foe.”<\/p>\n

At which point one of my much younger blog readers queried, somewhat plaintively (in real time and place, rather than the ether): “Why are you talking all that gibberish?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Not gibberish,”<\/em> I replied firmly: “<\/em>nonsense. Jabberwocky is a <\/em>nonsense poem, and I’m just having some fun with that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Possibly even the<\/em> nonsense poem, in fact — although there are many other worthy contenders, such as Hey Diddle Diddle<\/em>, used by Tolkien for the inn at Bree, in The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky<\/em>, from the novel\u00a0Through The Looking Glass <\/em><\/strong>(1871)<\/em>, is definitely a favourite of mine, though. So much so that I featured it as a Tuesday Poem, away back in 2010, together with a few reasons why I heart it:<\/p>\n

Tuesday Poem: Jabberwocky<\/em> by Lewis Carroll<\/a><\/h3>\n

So if, like my young friend, you hadn’t yet encountered its magic—though I imagine most of you have!—or simply to reread, click on the link to enjoy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last few weeks I’ve posted twice under the title “O Frabjous Day”, here and then again last week, here. In the first post, I also referred to the “…vorpal keyboard going snicker-snack so the author could go galumphing back to the main manuscript without further delay.” To which Kristen, in the second post, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38620"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38671,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38620\/revisions\/38671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}