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When I was learning English, the most memorable/epic lesson of advanced English I ever took was trying to understand what we were told was an "advanced" poem; t
by franciscop 7y ago
When I was learning English, the most memorable/epic lesson of advanced English I ever took was trying to understand what we were told was an "advanced" poem; the Jabberwock!
We were a class of 6-8 students, in pairs making our guesses of what the words that we didn't "understand" meant. We all got pretty advanced ideas and all got to similar conclusions. The teacher would tell us afterwards how those were made up words, and we were all in awe at how much we still understood and agreed upon the meaning of the words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
Sidequestion, is this poem taught in schools in the US by any chance?
- grepballsoffire 7y agoAustralian here. I studied it in school and so have my kids. They were equally amazed at how much meaning they could bestow on the words.
- sweeneyrod 7y agoGEB by Douglas Hofstadter has an interesting section on translations of the Jabberwocky http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/poem/hofstadter.html http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/poem/hofstadter.h...
- FroshKiller 7y agoYes. We even did a similar exercise in my class.