The use of imagenation in Jabberwocky
In Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky the use of imagination is a must. Carroll makes up words with rhyming sounds. This confuses the reader a little, but strangely enough you get some kind of an idea of what he is writing about. This is where the imagination comes in. When I heard these bizarre rhyming words for the first time my initial thought was that this poem doesn't make any sense. As I read on and certain words would go through my head, bells started going off, filling my head with ideas about the many ways this poem could be taken or interpreted. Imagination takes a vital role in Jabberwocky, especially when reading the first stanza, and tying to find the meaning of the poem. The first stanza, which is the most confusing to me and probably any one else who has read the poem, is filled with rhyming, made up words that will send you imagination into chaos. So much in fact that I wouldn't even try and put a literal meaning on
Lewis Carroll in my opinion created Jabberwocky for people to use their imaginations. If you let you mind free when you read this poem and not take it on a literal level, Carroll will take your imagination on a roller coaster, twisting and flipping it with all of his rhyming make believe words. However, if you think about it and use your imagination, you will see various meanings and totally different interpretations of the poem. That is the genius of the poem, it fits both personalities. Carrol has managed to create a poem that has a deep meaning for readers who are looking for one, and also at the same time he has created an escape for the imagination, in a sense. Imagination is definitely a vital role in not just the poem Jabberwocky, but anything that you read or do. it. But I think that is what Carroll had in mind when he wrote this stanza. It overwhelmed me at first filling my head with extremely confusing thoughts. As I read the other stanza's I got a pretty good idea of what Carroll was thinking; then oddly he repeats th
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