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||> == Lewis Carroll      [|image from Lenin Imports]    [|Wikimedia Commons]      "Everything's got moral, if only you can find it." - Lewis Carroll  . . .                __Biography__  ==

**//Lewis Carroll//** (January 27 1832- January 14 1898) was a poet whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodson. He was also called Rev. Charles Dodson. He was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England UK. When he was a child, His father ,also named Charles, was a vicar. Dodson attended Grammar School when his family moved to Croft. Dodson wrote family magazines consisting many poetries and drawings. He graduated from Christ Church college and earned a degree in Mathematics. He then became a Lecturer at Christ Church in Math. He continued to write comics that were featured in Comic Times. In 1865, Dodson submitted a parody to The Train. Dodson had a list of pseudonym names. Edmund Yates, editor of The Train chose the pseudonym  Lewis Carroll. Dodson was also interested in photography and was a great photographer. He had four pictures chosen for the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society in London. He continued to write and published short stories and even one on geometry. On July 4, 1862 Dodson was trying to pass time by telling a story to children on the boat ride. It was called //Alice's Adventures Underground//. Soon he wrote it down and friends and family begged him to publish and sell the book. It was renamed to //Alice in Wonderland// and was published in July 1865. At first it was withdrawn because of poor print quality then corrected it a second time and was released in November that same year. He then published  //The Dynamics of a Particle//. Dodson started a new series, in 1867 called  //Sylvie and Bruno//. It began with //Bruno's Revenge//, in //Aunt Judy's// Magazine. He began a sequel to //Alice// In Wonderland and titled it, //Through the Looking Glass// and //What Alice Found There//. Dodson's dad died in 1868. His family moved to Guildford. He stayed at Tom Quad and stayed there for the rest of his life. He continued to do photography and had his own studio built on his roof of where he lived. Dodson was a great writer who did mathematical works, and children's stories and contributed to many magazines. He devoted himself to writing all of his life. Dodson died of bronchitis on January 14, 1898. He was then buried in Mount Cemetary in Guildford. ||

[[image:lewiscsign1.jpg width="91" height="255" align="left"]]Poetry links
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 * * [|The Walrus and the Carpentar]
 * [|Jabberwocky]
 * [|Life is But A Dream]
 * [|You are Old Father William] ||> [[image:jabberwocky.jpg width="177" height="182" caption="Photobucket"]]

Explication of **"The Walrus and The Carpentar" ** [[image:walrus.jpg width="517" height="230" align="left"]]
 The poem "The Walrus and the Carpentar" first appeared in Carroll's book "Through the Looking Glass" in 1871. The text is taken from Jabberwocky(//[|www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html]//)<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">. <span style="color: rgb(153,0,204);"> In the poem Carroll is expressing the importance of choices and decisions how that can make you feel afterwards. The poem starts out with an introduction about how the sun shines and the settingof the poem. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">(" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might") In the fourth stanza it starts talking about the Walrus and Carpentar walking along the beach. It is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. They walk along the beach and happen upon some oysters. They ask if they would like to come along with them. An older oyster in the group disapproved of them going, but the young oysters still followed. ("The eldest Oyster winked his eye,and shook his heavy head--meaning to say he did not choose to leave the oyster-bed") After they walk a ways the characters turn on the oysters and eat them. The walrus is said to have remorse, and cry. ("I weep for you," the Walrus said: I deeply sympathize")<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">The Carpenter is unconcerned about betraying the oysters, and only wants to eat them quickly. Alice seems to think the walrus is crying he has no more oysters to eat. One element that is easy to point out in this poem is rhyme. It has an ABCBDB rhyming scheme.This poem is 18 stanzas and has 108 lines. It alternates between iambic tetrameters, and iambic trimeters. It is written in meter expressing different emotions that are expressed by metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia. Carroll also uses a lot of imagery in the first and second stanza describing the beach. Arrogance can trap others and causes them to betray others. This poem means that you really cant trust anyone. There may be people that are pretending to be friends with others, but some never know until betrayl. The Walrus and Carpentar have one intention, and that is to trick the oysters and eat them. The theme of the poem is basically betrayl and that you shouldn't trust easily. Carroll brings out the characters by rhyming which contributed to the poem, making the imagery. This poem is almost like a story book and Carroll made it very clear to understand. The Walrus and the Carpenter is a great poem and easy to relate to. Everyone has had someone break a promise and lose their trust with a friend. Trusting others is not easy, but easy for some. Trusting to quick can lead to betrayl and could hurt. Overall, this poem is very creative and creates a happy mood in the beginning but shocking mood in the end. Lewis Carroll used many traits to organize this poem.

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<span style="font-size: 180%; color: #ffdf00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sources
__The Academy of American Poets__. 1997. 6 Dec. 2008 <[|http://www.poets.org]>.

__Classic Authors__. 2008. Cyber Studios Inc. 5 Dec. 2008 <http://www.classicauthors.net/carroll/>.

"**Lewis Carroll**." __Encyclopedia Britannica__. 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 06 Dec. 2008 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/97087/Lewis-Carroll>. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">