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Poems & Jabberwock by Lewis Carroll

I spend so much time on my blog talking about fiction, yet it’s only limited to prose. I almost never read poetry, only if it’s for school or if it happens to be inside a bundle of stories I’m reading. Is poetry maybe less accessible? Maybe it doesn’t deal with the subjects that I love (fantasy/horror themes)? I’d love to read more epic kind of poems that tell a story in a different kind of format.

I thought I’d share my favourite poem with you guys today, which is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

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.

So do you guys read poetry? Do you have any recommendations?

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