Fri 23 May, 2008
Hard Question of the Weekend
10:35 pm Comments (6) Filed under: Just For FunTags: Jabberwocky, Poetry
Is Jabberwocky the best nonsense poem in the English language? If not, then in what language is it the best nonsense?
Tags: Jabberwocky, Poetry
[...] Original post by Thinking Christian [...]
I don’t know: Dr. Seuss did an exceptional job in may works to use “nonsense” words (which is actually a misnomer, in my mind), though he focused more on objects than on adjectives…
Jabberwocky is really the brilliant English nonsense poem, and I doubt it can be matched. But, that wasn’t your question, was it? So, now I’m wondering, how in the world could it be translated into any other language and still have the same impact?
Couldn’t one simply translate the words that do make sense and retain the ones that don’t?
[...] Gilson asks: Is Jabberwocky the best nonsense poem in the English language? If not, then in what language is it [...]
There’s a bunch of non-English versions here:http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/translations/index.html(try the Latin on for size)…And, one in Hebrew, here: http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/hebrew-wocky.html