Well I am now 100% convinced that Lewis Carroll is the greatest writter in all of history. I love his poetry. 'Walrus and the Carpenter' is fantastic, and I just read all of 'The hunting of the Snark'. What an amazing story! I would love to try my hand at absurd poetry but I would probably suck at it. I deffinately urge you to read the above mentioned. What a mind that man must have had to think up these stories. The inspiration for 'Snark' came with the line 'For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.'
I knew not what it meant, then: I know not what it means, now; but I wrote it down: and, sometime afterwards, the rest of the stanza occurred to me, that being its last line: and so by degrees, at odd moments during the next year or two, the rest of the poem pieced itself together, that being its last stanza.
In the midst of the word he was trying to say
In the midst of his laughter and glee
He had softly and suddenly vanished away
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
I bet you have no idea what any of that means out of context but basically, the baker, upon catching a snark... Oh nevermind. Its too absurd to explain out of context.
-Read it here- legit man.
-Me
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