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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

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    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535840361
    A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

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      A Study Guide for Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" - Gale

      08

      The Walrus and the Carpenter

      Lewis Carroll

      1871

      Introduction

      The Walrus and the Carpenter first appeared in 1871, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The verse is recited to Alice by Tweedledee, one of two fat little men, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, whom Alice encounters as she is seeking the way out of the forest of confusion through which she has been wandering. Inside Through the Looking Glass, The Walrus and the Carpenter reflects the world that Alice has entered when she went through the looking glass to the other side of it, where everything is perversely inverted, accounting for what seems to be the nonsense of the verse. Additionally, the poem functions, like the other famous set of verses in Through the Looking Glass, The Jabberwocky, the way a cadenza does in a concerto, to show off the composer's technical virtuosity and mastery of form for the delight of the listeners or, in this case, the readers.

      Extricated from its context and considered as a freestanding work, The Walrus and the Carpenter is a bizarre animal fable seemingly devised by topsy-turvy Aesop, offering a moral warning against following seductive strangers. Beyond that, however, it is suggestive of something that is being expressed symbolically. Each element of the poem can stand for something else that remains undefined in the poem but that may be introduced by each reader. Walrus and carpenter, for example, may represent predators; oysters may represent prey; the sea may stand for the safety of home, while the beach may suggest the danger of the outside world where there is no sure foundation, only

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