And the look in his eye Seemed to say to the sky, "Now, how to amuse them to-day?" They said "If he freezles In draughts and in breezles, Then PHTHEEZLES May even ensue."Ĭhristopher Robin Got up in the morning, The sneezles had vanished away. But humour or pleazle The wheezle Or sneezle, The measle Will certainly go." They expounded the reazles For sneezles And wheezles, The manner of measles When new. They said, "If you teazle A sneezle Or wheezle, A measle May easily grow. They all made a note Of the state of his throat, They asked if he suffered from thirst They asked if the sneezles Came after the wheezles, Or if the first sneezle Came first. All sorts and conditions Of famous physicians Came hurrying round At a run. They sent for some doctors In sneezles And wheezles To tell them what ought To be done. They wondered If wheezles Could turn Into measles, If sneezles Would turn Into mumps They examined his chest For a rash, And the rest Of his body for swellings and lumps. They gave him what goes With a cold in the nose, And some more for a cold In the head. You'll hear it and realize it pushes the pace along as the story escalates from a very common, not particularly serious complaint to the possibility of something much more.Ĭhristopher Robin Had wheezles And sneezles, They bundled him Into His bed. Instead you indicate the beginning of the second line with your voice - a stress on the first word.Įxperiment. When you say the first line, the one without punctuation, you don't pause before you begin the second. Where a line has none it "wraps around" or "flows into" the next. Use the punctuation to help with delivery. Even phtheezles is believable as the name for a serious disease. We feel the urgency his parents feel, as they try to work out what is wrong, and resort to getting specialists in.Īlthough the poem uses "nonsense" words we understand them because they are not very far removed from real ones. There's the repetition of wheezle and sneezle as well as their similar sounding variations: teazle, pleaszle, reazles, measles, breezles, freezles and phtheezles.Īlong side that the rhythm and rhyme bounces us through the story of how Christopher Robin feigned illness to get attention. Sneezles comes from English poet AA Milne's book of children's poems Now We Are Six published in 1927.Īgain this is a poem which plays with sound. If you have a group of three or more people, at least one could be your SFX expert. When I've worked with classes we kept our SFX simple: hand clapping, foot tapping, thigh slapping, hand rubbing sounds, shhhhhhh sounds for wind, repeated b-b-b-b, t-t-t-t etc sounds, animal sounds. *SFX (Sound Effects) Sounds that add 'color' or depth to the poem. It's a poem and fortunately, poems don't bite or break. What happens if you say this part slow? Fast? Loud? Soft? As if you are angry, a news broadcaster. Make a play, or a puppet show, of it with a narrator, hero, the hero's father, the jabberwock etc. Split it into sections and allocate the parts around your group. Like Ning Nang Nong, Jabberwocky is incredibly versatile. (That fearsome creature in the image above is the original illustration by English illustrator Sir John Tenniel.) It's been a favorite of every generation since. The poem was first published in 1871, as part of the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. We interpret the nonsense words as we see fit, roll with its rhythms while relishing Lewis Carroll's use of alliteration, assonance and consonance which makes the sound of the language so juicily satisfying. Jabberwocky is a romp from beginning to end. This is another glorious excursion into a make believe world a tale, chock full of delicious nonsense words, about how a valiant hero defeats a terrifying monster.
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