Cabbages and kings meaning

I have been a fan of Author, Lewis Carroll my entire life. In fact, his work has played a major part in my wanting to become a writer myself. Lewis Carroll not only captivates his readers, but also literally takes them captive through his use of mind twisting allegory and his play on words. Jesus, much like the poems and writings of Carroll, also used parables as means of ministering to groups of people because it made His teachings easier for them to understand. Ironically, many fail to see the meaning behind the story and only take away from the lesson just that… A story.

Children stories often carry a moral message. This is not a new thing, and has been the case since millennia and across many cultures around the globe. Sometimes, the moral story is not direct, and indeed can be very deep,and sometimes it is enveloped in satire or even cynicist philosophy. One such deeply symbolic and satirical story is Lewis Carroll 's poem of The Walrus and the Carpenter. In his book, Through The Looking Glass , which is the sequel to his Alice in Wonderland , the following story is told. Bu in the Disney animated film, Alice in Wonderland, it appears. Here is an excerpt of the relevant parts from the poem.

The poem is recited in chapter four , by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. The poem is composed of 18 stanzas and contains lines, in an alternation of iambic trimeters and iambic tetrameters. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the traditional English ballad. The Walrus and the Carpenter are the eponymous characters in the poem, which is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. Walking upon a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible, the Walrus and Carpenter come upon an offshore bed of oysters.

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