In the seven-stanza poem "Jabberwocky", Carroll tells the story of a fairy tale, filled with beasts and bravery. It begins the poem as if the speaker knows many descriptive details about the "Jabberwocky", but as a reader we are not sure what it is, or what it looks like. The poem itself could then be seen as a jumble of words on the part of the speaker in which he presents his description of a heroic action. Lewis Carroll, although using a jumble of words in his poem, nonetheless tells a suspenseful story through his use of diction, imagery, and themes that unite the poem. Because the poem focuses on the speaker's details about the creature, it is important to discuss what Carroll does with his specialized vocabulary throughout the poem. Carroll believed in enhancing meaning by combining words to take on the meaning each word would have separately, a sound device known as a portmanteau. Combining the words "smoking" and "furious" to create the "..frumious Bandersnatch", Carroll continues to use "homemade" words throughout the poem, mixing them with common words that tell the story of the beast “Jabberwock”. Although the reader does not know what each word means, they understand the sound that follows those specific words, creating a relationship between the sound and the apparent meaning of the word that unites the story and helps the reader understand the poem. The first stanza of the poem begins with a narrative, but then shifts from the narrative to a father speaking to his son in the second stanza. The “son” in the second stanza must go on a journey where he will encounter beasts against which his father reprimands him (lines 5-8). The reader immediately understands that the task is not easy......from the middle of paper...to the real world. The structure in which Carroll wrote the poem is remarkable; he was able to write a story with a major theme in the form of a seven-stanza quatrain unlike a novel or other literary work. The chronological order in which the boy kills the "Jabberwocky" allows the form and structure to come together and form an iambic tetrameter that alternates from tetrameter to trimeter, also known stylistically as the Ballad Stanza. "Jabberwocky" is written specifically in four-line quatrains and stanzas that have a regular ABAB, CDCD, and EFEF rhyme scheme. Lewis Carroll writes the poem as a captivating narrative poem that combines clever use of words, vibrant imagery, and strong thematic views to create a highly enjoyable read. By the end of the poem, the reader understands exactly what the "Jabberwocky" is capable of doing but also what the little village boy can accomplish...