A Short Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’

‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’ is a poem by Lewis Carroll, one of the two acknowledged masters of Victorian nonsense verse (along with Edward Lear). Although the poem is among his most popular, after ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, and The Hunting of the Snark, its curious origins are less well-known. Before we offer a few words of analysis about the poem, it might be worth recapping the words to ‘How Doth the Little Crocodile’, a poem of two stanzas. How Doth the ...

A Summary and Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was first published in 1871; according to Alice Liddell, the young girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write the Alice books, Through the Looking-Glass had its origins in the tales about the game of chess that Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) used to tell Alice and her sisters when they were learning to play the game. Below, we offer a brief plot summary of the novel, followed by some analysis of its meaning...

Jabberwocky Thrust - fiction

Jabberwocky Thrust Maxwell Grant CHAPTER I "OH MY ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" the White Rabbit said as he hurried down the long hallway. Alice watched him with a puzzled frown on her young, lovely face. From where she was standing she could see the White Knight out in the center of the big room. The White Knight moved his horse-shaped helmet a bit. The Duchess, holding a piglet under her arm, stomped down the center of the room. The man dressed in newspapers walked towa...