Jabberwocky Figurative Language

Short Investigation #3
“Jabberwocky” - speaker: third person/narrator, tone: serious, figurative language: lines 14-15 use imagery.
Lewis Carroll’s poem, “Jabberwocky,” emphasizes good vs. evil. The “good” being the brave boy, and the “evil” being the monster called a “jabberwocky.” This poem reveals a fundamental of language, or the aspect where people that use the language can create new words and phrases. In the first two lines of the poem, “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,” (121). The author used words such as “brillig” and “slithy” which demonstrate creativity that children are usually fond of. The author uses a theme of good vs. evil, like in most children stories, in order to grab children's attention and reveal to them a new language where they can be creative.

“The Red Wheelbarrow” - speaker: first person /narrator, tone: suspense, figurative language: lines 5-6 use imagery.
William Carlos Williams’s poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” reveals suspense through imagery and the missing punctuation. The white chickens and red wheelbarrow have so much depending on them but it is never revealed. The first two lines state, “so much depends upon…” (118). This quote reveals the suspense that is used throughout the whole poem. The suspense that is never answered brings readers to make assumptions that what is depending on the red wheelbarrow is