Brief personal note: Spring break is over, and I'm watching seven kids starting tomorrow and ending on Saturday. So. My research and pictures may be a bit rushed for this week--hopefully you can enjoy them anyway!
This is the Jabberwock. You know, from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Here's the poem--how do YOU picture it?
"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.
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI did the Jabberwock last year and it was fun.
I am trying to read all the A to Z blogs, but coming back to the ones I really like.
Looking forward to seeing what you do all month!
Tim
The Other Side
The Freedom of Nonbelief
Thanks, Tim! "The Jabberwocky" is one of my favorite poems. :)
DeleteHello from a fellow Washingtonian and writer. I wrote a couple of YA manuscripts and am now trying my hand at inspirational romance. I love both genres (as well as others). Nice to meet you!
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you, too! How are you finding the genre hop? I've written a couple YA manuscripts, and now I'm trying MG. It's tricky to switch!
DeleteI chose to memorize Jabberwolky for a class in high school and every year when I taught I had my kids choose a poem to recite. They hated it but thought that it was brilliant that I could still recite from memory Jabberwolky for them!
ReplyDeleteAnd totally - sell your drawings!
I can recite "The Jabberwocky" from a class in middle school--so I'm grateful to Mr. Wright for making me memorize it! And I would sell my drawings if I were any good at business, but for right now they're just a fun way to amuse my kids and myself when I want to be creative... :)
DeleteStopping in from the A to Z Challenge to say hello! Its fun to draw images of what we think characters should look like. I do it from time to time.
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