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Through the Looking-Glass (1871):
“Jabberwocky”
by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass

Title: “Jabberwocky”

Medium: poem

Publication date: 1871

Publisher: Macmillan
Written by: Lewis Carroll


2 characters in this story:

Character
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Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Jabberwock The Jabberwock
(lead character) 
villain
CBR Scale: D N.A.
[1st app: Through the Looking-Glass (1871)] Macmillan 38
Bandersnatch Bandersnatch
(details) 
supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
[animal species] Macmillan 2

The poem "Jabberwocky" was first published within Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking-Glass.

'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.