"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

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Uploaded by on Aug 11, 2008

A reading of the nonsense poem from from "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," of 1872, which gave us familar words such as "galumphing", "burbled" and "chortled".

The word "gyre" should be pronounced with a soft g as in "gyroscope" or "gyrate" - or so I thought - but Lewis Carroll said it should be a hard g in this poem, so I got it wrong. I'm sorry about that.

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  • I remember in my first year at secondary school my English teacher Mr Pender getting us to study the poem and see if we could work out what the nonsense words meant.

    It just goes to show you don't have to understand all the words to enjoy a poem - the sounds and rhythm of the words can make the meaning of a poem apparent...

  • My dad always read this to me when I was little. This is a great reading.

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