The poem I'm going to be responding to is "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. The plot goes like this: First, the father warns the son to be careful
of the Jabberwock, as well as some other beasts. Then the son takes a
"vorpal sword," sits by a tree and gets surprised by the aforementioned
Jabberwock. The son subsequently kills the Jabberwock, which leads to a
happy ending!
I think the author wrote it so he could try using Shakespeare's method of "insert random made up words into piece: become famous!" In order to do that, however, he needed people to notice it. Cleverly, he thought, "Why not have a man's son take a sword and slay a vicious beast? Everyone loves those stories!" We did love it, once we figured out how to pronounce the first and last stanzas.
This image here is a reference to the
Sisters Grimm series, which has the mentally unhinged Little Red Riding Hood imagining the Jabberwocky as a dog, which is itself a reference to the poem. The stuff in the Jabberwocky's mouth is
fire. Red is seeing this in first person, hence why she's not in the picture. To end this slightly lengthy post, have a nice day everybody!
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