Post by TRE on Sept 4, 2010 21:58:07 GMT -5
It should be noted that this is the best ever telling of the Jabberwocky that I know of and I have heard a few...
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Many times a reader can see not only what the author has scribed literally and hears its timing as a feeling of spirit or song but also the reader can sense the experience through forms of personal import and symbolism or some direct connectiion with items or ideas in the writing. We all know in times like these why the sea might be called boiling hot or why 'the shoes' might make the man in a social setting.
"The time has come,' the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings.'
Ultimately the poetry and spoken word as performance within a story are set within a setting and should lead us to a more specific place and thought including an understanding of who it was that spoke. Its possible that the play of rhyme and the way words are sparsely used can lead us to a simple truth.
And yet there is an element of telling and presenting of certain details in a particular way which the audience cannot explain away as character idiosyncracy or futterwakken with funky moves... The many anomalies of a riddle and its place of telling as impact point of where it is presented in a tale is that which makes them a powerful part of literature.
Lewis Carroll's works are filled with allegory as social imprints from cultural concepts that owned the man. I say this working of the Mad Hatter's Underland is a nod to all those past directors of film and stage who have paid great homage to Carroll's works such as 'Alice,' 'Screwtapes' and 'The Jabberwocky' for the sake of honoring prior visual parameters but also setting the tone beyond pure allegory and metaphor to some very specific historic ideas regarding revolution and the source of power which keeps one alive in tough times.... there is something deeper in these works as poetry, prose and visual reference which is associated with the heart of a culture overtaken. But let the reader also keep in mind that the 'Muchness' of some of these words is purely beyond our comprehension in the spirit of Lewis Carroll's own hand as a voice in a world which needs be remain unspoken for the sake of self preservation. Such is the way that the idea's power comes itself from the reader or the listening audience as opposed to the mechanisms of directness from a straightforward author who lays and plays out each emotion and dynamic twist.
Just such is the case with the simple riddle which The Hatter would have us consider... Why is the Raven Like the Writing Desk???.... could it be that they are simply both objectified as nouns by a language who takes their soul and leaves them marginalized???
What is it with the letter M and all its points of danger... that the hatter quietly ponders in an english manner while restraining his Scottish Sensibilities... I am open to your ideas and have a few of my own.... I think specifically of the contemporary Edgar Allen Poe and how the writing desk was like the raven .... Your thoughts???
www.youtube.com/v/cl-B2LW0_Oo&hl=en_US&fs=1
Many times a reader can see not only what the author has scribed literally and hears its timing as a feeling of spirit or song but also the reader can sense the experience through forms of personal import and symbolism or some direct connectiion with items or ideas in the writing. We all know in times like these why the sea might be called boiling hot or why 'the shoes' might make the man in a social setting.
"The time has come,' the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings.'
Ultimately the poetry and spoken word as performance within a story are set within a setting and should lead us to a more specific place and thought including an understanding of who it was that spoke. Its possible that the play of rhyme and the way words are sparsely used can lead us to a simple truth.
And yet there is an element of telling and presenting of certain details in a particular way which the audience cannot explain away as character idiosyncracy or futterwakken with funky moves... The many anomalies of a riddle and its place of telling as impact point of where it is presented in a tale is that which makes them a powerful part of literature.
Lewis Carroll's works are filled with allegory as social imprints from cultural concepts that owned the man. I say this working of the Mad Hatter's Underland is a nod to all those past directors of film and stage who have paid great homage to Carroll's works such as 'Alice,' 'Screwtapes' and 'The Jabberwocky' for the sake of honoring prior visual parameters but also setting the tone beyond pure allegory and metaphor to some very specific historic ideas regarding revolution and the source of power which keeps one alive in tough times.... there is something deeper in these works as poetry, prose and visual reference which is associated with the heart of a culture overtaken. But let the reader also keep in mind that the 'Muchness' of some of these words is purely beyond our comprehension in the spirit of Lewis Carroll's own hand as a voice in a world which needs be remain unspoken for the sake of self preservation. Such is the way that the idea's power comes itself from the reader or the listening audience as opposed to the mechanisms of directness from a straightforward author who lays and plays out each emotion and dynamic twist.
Just such is the case with the simple riddle which The Hatter would have us consider... Why is the Raven Like the Writing Desk???.... could it be that they are simply both objectified as nouns by a language who takes their soul and leaves them marginalized???
What is it with the letter M and all its points of danger... that the hatter quietly ponders in an english manner while restraining his Scottish Sensibilities... I am open to your ideas and have a few of my own.... I think specifically of the contemporary Edgar Allen Poe and how the writing desk was like the raven .... Your thoughts???