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Poetry and Function
The consolidation of an artist's thoughts emerges in many ways. Through poetry, writers express themselves in the
most lyrical and, more often, most concise way. All have carefully picked over the diction and structure of their
pieces in order to precisely articulate their intention. The conventional forms, such as a sonnet, leave the poet with
certain methods to emphasize their meanings. Nowadays, free verse is the more popular type of poem, as it gives
the poet leave to mess with or completely disregard grammar, pattern, and rhyme. The poem, “Jabberwocky”, by
Lewis Carroll is a ballad with regular rhyme scheme and meter, and while it is in a conventional form, its words are
anything but. Conversely, T.S. Eliot's poem “Hysteria” is written like prose, with no rhyme. Relative to its title, Eliot
uses free verse to closely emulate the emotions being conveyed. Both poets focus on crafting their poems
through the formation of words and sentences, creating impacting works of art.
“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is a well known poem from his famous work, Through the Looking Glass, the
sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The piece is a tale about the slaying of a monster called “the
Jabberwock” (line 5). In a fairy tale manner, the story of a young boy unfolds. He is told of various monsters to be
wary of, and then goes on a quest to defeat his “maxome foe”(line 10), the Jabberwock. In apparent ease, he slays
the monster and brings back its head in triumph.
Carroll uses a conventional ballad form to construct the poem. He makes a traditional combination of an ABAB
rhyme scheme, quatrains, a repeated chorus, and dialogues in his ballad. The first stanza is the chorus of the
ballad, and the last stan...