Jabberwocky (FAQ)

What exactly is 'jabberwocky'?

It is not a sweater, no, it is not some newfound specie, and it is definitely not an idiot walking around muching tree bark with his socks worn on his ears!

Jabberwocky is in fact a poem written by Lewis Carroll and "it is about a boy who slays the fierce Jabberwock." Originally from his work, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There [eventually published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland], it was converted to other languages including Latin.
(http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/jabberwocky.htm)

Lewis Carroll is a genius. I find it fun reading Jabberwocky aloud when I have nothing to do.:)

Jabberwocky
by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

'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.