Essays on Jabberwocky

Metalinguistic awareness refers to the ability of language recognition as an object. The objectification of language makes it easy for study with respect to transfer of knowledge between languages. Therefore, Metalinguistic awareness is the recognition by an individual of their knowledge of a certain language. For the complete knowledge of a certain language, an individual must possess a grasp of certain facets of the language for their reference as individuals who are wholly conversant with the language. These facets are phonology, semantic, morpho-syntactic, pragmatic and literate. Phonology is the study of sound arrangement within a language. This being so; the acquisition ...

English Literature

The Jabberwocky is the principle example of nonsense poetry but is a clever allegory for the traditional bildungsroman story. Its theme is the idea of growing up with the Jabberwocky representing the trials and fears that we must overcome in the process of becoming an adult. Within this essay, I will discuss the themes, imagery and language used in the poem to create this central idea. Mina Loy stated that “poetry is prose bewitched” (Gioia & Kennedy 1114) and in The Jabberwocky, Carroll tells an important story that is just this.

Carroll has clever used language to distract his reader from ...

When Lewis Carroll composed his poem entitled Jabberwocky, he did so with the intention of writing a nonsensical piece which used such invented words as “manxome” and “uffish.” These fantastical words are used with two intentions in mind: the first is to enhance the reader’s child-like state of mind in order to encourage a full comprehension of the poem’s symbolism, whilst secondly it is used to mask the poem’s true meaning, for reasons that are only clear to the poet himself. Symbolism, however, plays a key role in the poem and it does, in part, tell the story of a ...