![]() ![]() We feel the urgency his parents feel, as they try to work out what is wrong, and resort to getting specialists in.Īlthough the poem uses "nonsense" words we understand them because they are not very far removed from real ones. There's the repetition of wheezle and sneezle as well as their similar sounding variations: teazle, pleaszle, reazles, measles, breezles, freezles and phtheezles.Īlong side that the rhythm and rhyme bounces us through the story of how Christopher Robin feigned illness to get attention. Sneezles comes from English poet AA Milne's book of children's poems Now We Are Six published in 1927.Īgain this is a poem which plays with sound. If you have a group of three or more people, at least one could be your SFX expert. When I've worked with classes we kept our SFX simple: hand clapping, foot tapping, thigh slapping, hand rubbing sounds, shhhhhhh sounds for wind, repeated b-b-b-b, t-t-t-t etc sounds, animal sounds. *SFX (Sound Effects) Sounds that add 'color' or depth to the poem. ![]() It's a poem and fortunately, poems don't bite or break. What happens if you say this part slow? Fast? Loud? Soft? As if you are angry, a news broadcaster. Make a play, or a puppet show, of it with a narrator, hero, the hero's father, the jabberwock etc. Split it into sections and allocate the parts around your group. Like Ning Nang Nong, Jabberwocky is incredibly versatile. (That fearsome creature in the image above is the original illustration by English illustrator Sir John Tenniel.) It's been a favorite of every generation since. The poem was first published in 1871, as part of the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. We interpret the nonsense words as we see fit, roll with its rhythms while relishing Lewis Carroll's use of alliteration, assonance and consonance which makes the sound of the language so juicily satisfying. Jabberwocky is a romp from beginning to end. ![]() This is another glorious excursion into a make believe world a tale, chock full of delicious nonsense words, about how a valiant hero defeats a terrifying monster. ![]()
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