The Slaying of the Slybiterzurück (Nonsense Poem) by Mike Williams 08/12/2016 @ 6:51 A.M.
The Slaying of the Slybiterzurück (Nonsense Poem) by Mike Williams 08/12/2016 @ 6:51 A.M.
`Tis gossdorn, the banded prickpie taresnay
To gnashbit and nailback up the klippe:
Quatsch for the knacklenimbkopf bramblesay,
And the schlechtmal baitrows overtrip.
"Keep an eye open for the Slybiterzurück!
The poison tongue, the petrified dewy-eyed stare!
And the Cacklecon, and the Cafélack,
My girl, indeed keep aware!"
Taking her comporal shield and wunderwaffe:
Scaling the klippe and spied the lay --
Then stood she by the isolate stream,
And quiet was the bramblesay.
Came gruffing forth from the knacklenimbcoff wilde,
The Cacklecon and the Cafélack,
Ninnyhammers stammering appeared her at first puerile.
The two gnoffing commenced attack!
Once distracted shewed the Slybiterzurück behind,
With the comporal shield and waffe she held her ground,
And parted the gruesome twosome in kind,
Then struck that sly beast down.
"Did thee slay the Slybiterzurück, pray,
Stand up to the Cacklecon and Cafélack?
O brave the day all the townies say!
How that girl came back!"
`Tis gossdorn, the banded prickpie taresnay
To gnashbit and nailback up the klippe:
Quatsch for the knacklenimbkopf bramblesay,
And the schlechtmal baitrows overtrip.
posted by Mike Williams @ 7:12 AM
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1 Comments:
My inspiration for this poem stems from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky.'
Rather than using Anglo-Saxon derived words, I opted for more Germanic and English derived words and coined my word choices from that basis. I chose to stay true to the original style and format of Lewis Carroll's poem, so to concentrate my efforts on creating the nonsense words used and fill in the lacuna of their meaning.
My poem is about a young girl from a township, who braves the wilds of a country setting with its local gossips depicted as personified creatures, whom she must battle to maintain her personal integrity. In the end, she parts the gossips and slays gossiping (the
Slybiterzurück) as a whole and survives to return home as a heroine among the townfolk.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.
'Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of an animal called "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass.
A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become "Jabberwocky" while in Croft on Tees, close to Darlington, where he lived as a child, and printed it in 1855 in Mischmasch, a periodical he wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family. The piece was titled "Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry."
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