Thursday 21 July 2011

Lewis Carroll Goes Kaboom! < PopMatters


There are various ongoing arguments in literature, and in popculture in general, surrounding Adventurer Carroll's substance poem, "The Pinnatiped and the Carpenter". It goes equal this: what do the Pinnatiped and Carpenter characters correspond? What does the tarradiddle symbolize? And who of the two, the pinnatiped or the carpenter, acted the most immorally? Could the Carpenter be an plain indite to Jew, and the Walrus with his fasten a extension to the Siddhartha? And is this poem a profound rumination on religion's power to apply its multitude? Or, does the poem nasty anything at all?

A slight emphasise:  The poem appeared in Sprinter Carroll's 1871 classic children's assemblage Through the Looking Enclose, recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum to Alice. The Pinnatiped and the Carpenter are walking along a beach one night (both sun and slug are seeable) and bump upon a bed of oysters. The Walrus and the Carpenter quest quaternary of them to junction them on their walk with the intention of eating them. Some author select, with the disapproval of the issue oyster. By the end of the poem, the oysters are ingested. After perception the tale, Alice tries to settle which of the two important characters is solon empathetic but cannot eliminate up her listen, thusly igniting humanities and sometimes comedic disputes for life to uprise.

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