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The poem 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll describes a boy's encounter with a fantastical creature called the Jabberwock. The boy is warned by his father not to go near the Jabberwock but he takes up his vorpal sword anyway. He slays the Jabberwock in a quick battle and returns home to celebration.

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Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll: © WWW - Teachitprimary.co - Uk 2009 9866 Page 1 of 2

The poem 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll describes a boy's encounter with a fantastical creature called the Jabberwock. The boy is warned by his father not to go near the Jabberwock but he takes up his vorpal sword anyway. He slays the Jabberwock in a quick battle and returns home to celebration.

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‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll

’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, has 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.

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‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll

Cut up the discussion prompts and place in a box. Pupils


take turns in choosing one of the prompts and discuss
their ideas in small groups.

In the poem the father warns his son not to go near the
Jabberwock but he does anyway. Do you think a girl
would have behaved in this way?

Despite a warning the boy still seeks out the Jabberwock.


Do you think this is what his father always intended?

What do you think the boy was thinking as he stood by


the Tumtum tree?

The slaying of the Jabberwock appears to happen very


quickly. Why do you think the poet did this?

Why is there such celebration at the end of the poem?

What is the impact of repeating the first verse at the end?


Does it tell us that nothing has really changed despite the
killing?

What does the poet’s description of the setting tell the


reader?

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