Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Famous Poem that Relates to the Character

"Jabberwocky"


'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.


from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There(1872).
 The poem Jabberwocky relates to The Old Man and the Sea because both are talking about killing a "monster". The hero in the Jabberwocky waited patiently for the Jabberwocky for a long time and then finally killed it. The old man in The Old Man and the Sea caught the marlin and sailed with it for days, patiently waiting for the fish to tire so that he could bring it in then he killed it with a harpoon. The characters from the poem and the book were both patient and carefull in the catching and killing of their "prey".

No comments:

Post a Comment