“Jabberwocky” is a poem famous for its utter nonsense. Like much of the setting in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” follows dream logic, this poem seems to follow nonsense logic. It feels like every other word is completely made-up, yet taken as a whole the poem makes perfect sense. Carroll wrote this poem in a childrens’ book, so he had to know that to keep a young mind engaged he would have to do something to make the poem stand out. His nonsense words feel like words that a young brain would create, and are typically alliterized onomatopoeias. There is little deeper meaning I could find in the poem – I think it is very much what it says on the tin. But nonetheless, this poem has infected our culture and uses language in a way that almost makes me think of a childish Shakespeare.