@platonik filofOz Yeah, but written in morse code of emotions or something. If bots would do the test "I'm not a robot" they would start to think their entire existence.
This was my favourite poem since I was little! I loved all the nonsense words, Lewis Carrol really went and invented a bunch of my favourite words that we use today. Also one of the best parts of "Through the Looking Glass" is when Humpty Dumpty attempts to parse and explain the poem to Alice - Lewis Carrol also went and gave an explanation of his own work in his own work -like, the meta of having a piece of nonsense fiction that he wrote within his own fictional nonsense world. And then EXPLAINING IT. And since he invented most of the words he used in the Jabberwocky he could essentially have them mean whatever he wanted. And then propogate them by teaching the meanings through the use of his character explaining them - even though most of the ones Humpty explained (or made up meanings for) didn't really catch on. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty says, "It means exactly what I want it to mean - neither more nor less."
this is actually a style of poetry! it's more focused on the sounds words make than any actual story or message. lewis carroll took it to an extreme, sure, but these types of poems are gorgeous to hear!
T'was so snicker-snackety, I got lost in uffish thought whilst as the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, the Jabberwock galumphed through my beamish head. So whifflingly valiant were they, that brillig lad and his vorpal blade, it made frabjous, my frumious day! All hail Ted-Ed, with a callooh and a callay!
Many of the words used were portmanteaus. A portmanteau is where you take two or more words and mix them together to make a new word. "Smog," for example, comes from "smoke" and "fog." Carroll clarified some of them, stating that "frumious" meant "fuming and furious," "mimsy" meant "flimsy and miserable," and "slithy" meant "lithe and slimy." The poem was purposely meant to be nonsense. Alice, in _Alice in Wonderland,_ tries to make sense of it and the Walrus tries to explain it to her, only to infuriate her more. I guess it's just a way to further emphasize just how weird Wonderland is compared to our world.
One time in fifth grade, my class had a feel trip to a library, and there some poetry teacher guy told us this poem. But we got to act it out while he was doing it, and he gave like three students rolls, and I was the Tumtum tree. I’m still chasing that high
I've got an incredibly literary family, authors, librarians, editors, several of each across 4 generations and this is one of our favourite pieces. It's inspired a game on family holidays to create our own nonsensical story each contributing a line. Great fun and we've come up with some doosies but nothing compared to this creative classic masterpiece. Thankyou for the upload.
I literally had goosebumps after 1:05 narration was that good.... Edit:- not only the narrator but the animation and the background music added so much more.
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!" "My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!" "My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!" "My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!" "My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!" Victory
@@OnlyCommentPoster I am! but the videos im interested in seem quite aged, so a video about a topic I was very interested in (lewis carroll), that just released was a nice surprise!
my favorite author, C.S. Lewis, had a similar quote: "I wrote the books I should have liked to read, if only I could have got them. That's always been my reason for writing."
Omg, I love the Jabberwocky! I've been obsessed with it since I first read Through the Looking Glass when I was a kid It's so cool to see it get an animatic here!
Same! It's my favorite poem, and in my favorite book! C: I memorized it unintentionally by reading it so much. Was totally reciting along with the video.
True. After i read alice through the looking glass i take a rather long break from reading. I suppose it just messes up with one's head because theres no rule there and human mind needs rule to make sense of something, otherwise the possibility will be endless
So your telling me even I can make a basic story, replace the words, and then show it to everyone else in hopes of someone making a video on it and then me becoming famous? Well finally some good use of quarantine.
oh boy here i go calculating the number of pronounceable text including comma period and space at the length of below a thousand chars and saying one in the number of possibilities chance
This animation was absolutely beautiful. Possibly my favorite from Ted Ed (as well as prisoner's dilemma). The sudden stops in the pictures really portrays the phrasing and flow of the poem. Made my day cooler :)
It sounds like one of those old poems with a bunch of old words you don’t understand but you can still infer an approximation of what they mean and you understand what is going on.
Sjaak Rood deserves a standing ovation and minutes of loud praise for the _awesome_ art in this. Wow, just wow! More, please, I need this in a long form project.
I felt that I learned everything about some sense but still at the same time, I still have something about nonsense, when it's supposed to go away when i learned some sense and still there is 'till nonsense which will never disappear unless i have some sense, weird...
I think how the poem makes sense with these nonsense words is because they can sound somewhat similar to real words and so our brain makes connections between them to try to understand them. For instance, note the word "slithy" in both the first few and last lines in the poem: "'Twas brilig, and the slithy toves". Slithy makes us think of slithering, which makes us think of snakes and other creatures that don't have extra appendages, which can give the impression that the "toves" are somewhat dark, damp, musty, or slimy (even though snakes aren't slimy and are rather dry). Another example is a word from the same line: brillig. Brillig seems reminiscent of bright or brilliant, so we can assume that at the time of day this poem takes place during the day. And lastly, when the hero returns with the head of the Jabberwock, there are two nonsense words that I can make sense of: beamish and frabjous. Beamish could come from the word beam as a synonym of smile. So the word beamish could mean "able to bring a smile to my face" which does fit in the context of this story. Frabjous brings forth into mind the word fabulous, perhaps because the words use the same starting and ending letter. This too fits into the story and can be used as a substitute for the nonsense word. Hope this answers your question and isn't too confusing ;)
As a non-native speaker, at first I didn't even notice that there are so many nonsense words. I just thought they were normal words I just don't know. I think my brain just tried to explain some words with other English words I know, as explained by Claire Park.
can we take a moment to appreciate the essence the narrator's voice adds to this and the beautiful art by the artist! (I'm still trying to process what I've just watched)
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin
Love the narration as much as the animation, my #1 fave nonsense poem. Long live forever the great Lewis Carroll. Jabberwocky is one of my fave words by him. ❤ ♥️ 📚 ✏️ 😍🥰😘
It may be nonsense but to me this poem is one of the best literary representations of childhood and how, when you are young , you are given warnings about being careful when playing which do seem somewhat amplified but then end up feeding into the dimension of play making everything seem like a quest.
The animation is absolutely gorgeous, kudos to the creators.
Ikr! The animators are just...mhwah and the narration is nice too
Don't forget the narrator! The spirit I can feel, gibberish even if it is!
+1
+1
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Psychiatrist: So how would you describe your mental condition
Me: *Jabberwocky*
@platonik filofOz yeah! Short and sweet not too sweet tho.
@platonik filofOz Yeah, but written in morse code of emotions or something. If bots would do the test "I'm not a robot" they would start to think their entire existence.
@platonik filofOz yeah true, in that case the youtube algorithm might be in trouble of identifying this video.
@platonik filofOz yeah, but content creators will be sad. :'(
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The narrator really outdid himself on this one. It sounds like he's having so much fun. 😊
he's my favourite narrator on TEDed
@@enby_dreamsssname ?
Ur mom
@@missfanty5767jack cutmore scott, you can find the narrators name at the end
When I first started learning English as a non-native speaker:
Accurate
Me after hearing poem: "Pardon?"
Hahahaha
Same,but the animation was a big help
See whether you can follow along
2 seconds into the poem
Brain .exe. has stopped working
Ask Humpty Dumpty, just like Alice did. Oh. Wait. He's an omelette, now. Never mind. At, least, he'll stop punishing the little fishes because.
When a child tries to express his imagination into words, this poem happens.
true that
Nonsense poems make more sense than actual poems at times.
Not only in poems but in real life also... Non sense is making much more sense than common sense
What makes sense is objective, it's based on how people think or what they call "normal"
Thats a profile of chad XD
KappaKagia90 agree
Parvathi Vediyoor XD
This was my favourite poem since I was little! I loved all the nonsense words, Lewis Carrol really went and invented a bunch of my favourite words that we use today. Also one of the best parts of "Through the Looking Glass" is when Humpty Dumpty attempts to parse and explain the poem to Alice - Lewis Carrol also went and gave an explanation of his own work in his own work -like, the meta of having a piece of nonsense fiction that he wrote within his own fictional nonsense world. And then EXPLAINING IT. And since he invented most of the words he used in the Jabberwocky he could essentially have them mean whatever he wanted. And then propogate them by teaching the meanings through the use of his character explaining them - even though most of the ones Humpty explained (or made up meanings for) didn't really catch on. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty says, "It means exactly what I want it to mean - neither more nor less."
When the Ted-Ed sound doesn't play, you know its gonna be good
so true
But IT is good even if the sound plays
Lol weird insight can you explain? 🤔😁
Bentley Baartman it’s so cool they have no time for the intro
It kinda took me by surprise, It was good...I do like the intro song and fragment a lot though
Love him or hate him, Lewis Carroll was spitting straight facts.
Or not. With that way of writing we will never know
He was also spitting on his cousin
@@vanillagorilla7016😂😂
Everyone talking about animation
Anyone acknowledge the narrator's excellent enunciation
Edit : Anyone else notice Jabberwock's eyes open in the end?
He and Addison Anderson are two of my favourite Ted Ed narrator's.
Indeed!
True that! The recitation & the animation perfectly compliment each other 💛
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"Frumious Bandersnatch"
Wait, isn't that an actor?
He plays Poter's Range
There is also a Jabberwock and a bendersnatch in Alice in Wonderland
OMG
oh yeahhh that was the guy who played sherlock
No, that's Bariumoxyd Calciumsulfate.
This is not how I expected my morning to start out like
And my night to end...😂
@@keshavkaushik8203 me too
Same😂
same
Don't worry. You'll be gyring and gimbling by brillig, I just know it!
2:00 OMG THE HEADLESS JABBERWOCKY IS IN THE BACKGROUND
_"I'm not strange, weird, nor crazy, my reality is just different from your."_
*~ Lewis Caroll*
Well i mean reality fosent change...its just our perception of if that dies
-jesus
Yo dog we're outta milk.
-Jesus
Absolutely
_"You have my attention, dear boy."_
~ *Salvador Dali*
this is actually a style of poetry! it's more focused on the sounds words make than any actual story or message. lewis carroll took it to an extreme, sure, but these types of poems are gorgeous to hear!
TedEd's interpretation of "nonsense" is brilliant!
T'was so snicker-snackety, I got lost in uffish thought whilst as the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, the Jabberwock galumphed through my beamish head. So whifflingly valiant were they, that brillig lad and his vorpal blade, it made frabjous, my frumious day!
All hail Ted-Ed, with a callooh and a callay!
And the award for the best comment goes to!!!!!!
What the f...
Without animation it would have been painful to make sense of, not that I understand it now
It’s actually not that hard to understand when you read it, as long as you have a little imagination.
Its just made up adjectives and nouns. You can twist it to mean a few things but just gotta have a bit of imagination tbh
@@D00Rb3LL It's a nightmare for non native speakers
Many of the words used were portmanteaus. A portmanteau is where you take two or more words and mix them together to make a new word. "Smog," for example, comes from "smoke" and "fog."
Carroll clarified some of them, stating that "frumious" meant "fuming and furious," "mimsy" meant "flimsy and miserable," and "slithy" meant "lithe and slimy."
The poem was purposely meant to be nonsense. Alice, in _Alice in Wonderland,_ tries to make sense of it and the Walrus tries to explain it to her, only to infuriate her more. I guess it's just a way to further emphasize just how weird Wonderland is compared to our world.
@@ascetic3312 ooooh thank you! I knew it was from Alice and wonderland but thats really cool I didn't know what a portmanteau was!
1:56 The respawn didn’t quite work
Sounds like every conversation I tried to have with British people.
💀💀💀
Or Australians
Australians sound worse because they don't bother sounding proper.
*tea sipping stops* 🤨
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd I don't think it would be any less confusing to him if he heard you speaking Welsh
When all goes bananas is one thing,
but when it went snicker-snack...
now that's quite slithy frabjous.
I love the way the narrator read this, I could imagine the scene even without the amazing animation
One time in fifth grade, my class had a feel trip to a library, and there some poetry teacher guy told us this poem. But we got to act it out while he was doing it, and he gave like three students rolls, and I was the Tumtum tree. I’m still chasing that high
"What did I just watch?"
But then to be fair, the narrator did say at the beginning, "Can you follow?"
Shout out to the jabberwock in hearthstone who’s voice line is “my jaws that bite! My claws that catch!”
I've got an incredibly literary family, authors, librarians, editors, several of each across 4 generations and this is one of our favourite pieces.
It's inspired a game on family holidays to create our own nonsensical story each contributing a line. Great fun and we've come up with some doosies but nothing compared to this creative classic masterpiece.
Thankyou for the upload.
Can I join your family?
can I join too? haha
Hey! I played this game with my friends when I was in 9th grade
Not all of them were so intellectual, though; and they gave the best ones
I envy you soooo much, I tried something like this a few years back and everyone just started insulting the story.
Your family sounds like my family. My husband and son are always making up games.
I literally had goosebumps after 1:05 narration was that good....
Edit:- not only the narrator but the animation and the background music added so much more.
Wanna hear a poem?
I dig.
You dig.
He dig.
She dig.
They dig.
We dig.
It's not much but its pretty deep.
Lol
😂😂😂
Oh the intentional misuse of the conjugation of “to dig” makes it so deep: all dig, but don’t care if they’re right or wrong
I didn't understand. Pls help.
Ya dig
So basically this is a 3 in 1 work of absolute art : the words, the narration and especially the animation.
Nobody:
Fever dreams:
hahahah yesss
I almost forgot about fever dreams.
Dreams have meanings.
Does it happen to you too? The fever dreams, where everything goes big and you become so small?
@@HamdiRizal Thought I was the only one. I hate that feeling lol
Sheogorath: I'm going to have nonsensical thoughts about that!
WABBAJACK!!!
You shouldn't ta ought ta done that!
It's painful for me to see so little likes on this comment
Wabbajack
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!"
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!"
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!"
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!"
"My jaws that bite, my claws that catch!"
Victory
Ah, a fellow hearthstonian
God damn shudderwock
Wrong place
How long can this go on?
Settra Surfs yes
Jabberwocky sounds like a word that brit's use to swear
IKR...it has that ring to it
As a Brit I take umbration to that snackraferous comment, you utter Jabberwock.
Quote the Jabberwocky
Never more...
hogwash
Now that's just all namby-pamby
The narrators voice just fits in perfectly and pronounces it it its just *chefs kiss
Most Ted-Ed videos I watch are months, if not years, old! Finding one that came out half a minute ago was startling!
Try subscribing
You're not kidding lol
@@OnlyCommentPoster I am! but the videos im interested in seem quite aged, so a video about a topic I was very interested in (lewis carroll), that just released was a nice surprise!
For me, it was startling that it's been here for three years before I found it...
I remember how I learned by heart the Jabberwocky to impress my literature teacher.
She never let me recite it.
I regret nothing.
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
ah yes
I like this other quote more
"The human heart in conflict with itself is the only thing worth writing about"
I think that sums it up the best.
Yeah I ain’t got time for that
I took this literally and quit my job and now I'm writing the book I wish existed.
Oh well....let's see how this goes :3
my favorite author, C.S. Lewis, had a similar quote: "I wrote the books I should have liked to read, if only I could have got them. That's always been my reason for writing."
A kid at my high school preformed this poem for Poetry Out Loud, and to this day I can still hear it in his voice.
1:56 - why are it's eyes open again....
Because
It's the Jabberwocky.
you can see its body walking around in the background... searching for its head.....
@@dragonboy9506 haa.. didn't notice that!
@@sazidahmed1271Same
Oh ya
You just gave me so much English vocabulary, as someone who’s still learning English this is a mine of gold
Omg, I love the Jabberwocky! I've been obsessed with it since I first read Through the Looking Glass when I was a kid
It's so cool to see it get an animatic here!
I sang a Jabberwocky song in my choir, so I already knew about it too.
Same! It's my favorite poem, and in my favorite book! C: I memorized it unintentionally by reading it so much.
Was totally reciting along with the video.
I just watched the movie ._.
For some reason this book is more scary than a horror movie.
True. After i read alice through the looking glass i take a rather long break from reading. I suppose it just messes up with one's head because theres no rule there and human mind needs rule to make sense of something, otherwise the possibility will be endless
@@tulangkerangka1599 Cool you must be smart
When my school teaches a poem ; I am like 😩😫
When Ted ed teaches a poem; I am like 😃😊
I have a poem: rm
Never thought of the beamish boy on a horse.
This is wonderful. Thank you❤
Memorized this poem at 72. ✨✨✨✨
This is just a basic story with words replaced, I can't believed I've been so frelaced.
The animator certainly embiggened the watcher’s understanding of the poem though
A truly jippending poem
What's this chattyplay that y'all babbling about UwU
This is a very gulgiry poem
An accurate representation of my daily nightmares while I'm in a sleep paralysis.
So your telling me even I can make a basic story, replace the words, and then show it to everyone else in hopes of someone making a video on it and then me becoming famous?
Well finally some good use of quarantine.
I remember singing this in high school, I never realized it was a poem
oh boy here i go calculating the number of pronounceable text including comma period and space at the length of below a thousand chars and saying one in the number of possibilities chance
to be fair, a song is literally a type of poem
This make us feel that people understand more through Animation than the Theory ❤️
everyone in comments: wOaH pOeTrY nIcE aNiMaTiOn cOoL pOeM
my school's theatre kids: THIS POEM STILL HAUNTS ME TILL THIS DAY
The next book recommendations by Ted ed. Clicked without a second thought
At 0:35 all the hearthstone players just have flashbacks of shudderwock
Ngl that Jabberwock appearance startled me out.
This shows how much the animator loves animation.
Always enjoying Ted’s animation
This animation was absolutely beautiful. Possibly my favorite from Ted Ed (as well as prisoner's dilemma). The sudden stops in the pictures really portrays the phrasing and flow of the poem. Made my day cooler :)
I've never been this early. Im so honored
SAME
Same
Same
EMAS
It sounds like one of those old poems with a bunch of old words you don’t understand but you can still infer an approximation of what they mean and you understand what is going on.
I thought it was a dance group 😂
That's Jabbawockeez 😅
THATS WHY IT SOUNDS FAMILIAR oh my god I was so sure I had heard it before
This is genuinely one of the most comforting reads I can return to. Jabberwocky is always a testament about the sense within nonsense for me.
Never this early for a Ted Ed video. Thx recommendations
I recited this for an English poem recitation competition, And guess what? I got selected! Thank u Ted-ed. Special thanks to the narrator.
Love the animation, it looks so cool and unique!
1:54 The 2 ppl throwing their hats with "wee"🤣🤣
Why is nobody mentioning the fact that Eruthan literally turned it into an amazing song
Sjaak Rood deserves a standing ovation and minutes of loud praise for the _awesome_ art in this.
Wow, just wow!
More, please, I need this in a long form project.
Or something from star wars
The “claws that bite and claws that catch” got me the PTSD of those Heartstone days...
In the 6th grade they made us memorize this poem and I'm astonished with how much I remember 12 years later
I felt that I learned everything about some sense but still at the same time, I still have something about nonsense, when it's supposed to go away when i learned some sense and still there is 'till nonsense which will never disappear unless i have some sense, weird...
If your first sense makes good sense, seek no other sense, lest you come up with nonsense.
I'd love a linguistic analysis on how this poem makes "sense" with "nonsense" words. Anyone have any answers as to why?
I think how the poem makes sense with these nonsense words is because they can sound somewhat similar to real words and so our brain makes connections between them to try to understand them. For instance, note the word "slithy" in both the first few and last lines in the poem: "'Twas brilig, and the slithy toves". Slithy makes us think of slithering, which makes us think of snakes and other creatures that don't have extra appendages, which can give the impression that the "toves" are somewhat dark, damp, musty, or slimy (even though snakes aren't slimy and are rather dry). Another example is a word from the same line: brillig. Brillig seems reminiscent of bright or brilliant, so we can assume that at the time of day this poem takes place during the day.
And lastly, when the hero returns with the head of the Jabberwock, there are two nonsense words that I can make sense of: beamish and frabjous. Beamish could come from the word beam as a synonym of smile. So the word beamish could mean "able to bring a smile to my face" which does fit in the context of this story. Frabjous brings forth into mind the word fabulous, perhaps because the words use the same starting and ending letter. This too fits into the story and can be used as a substitute for the nonsense word.
Hope this answers your question and isn't too confusing ;)
As a non-native speaker, at first I didn't even notice that there are so many nonsense words. I just thought they were normal words I just don't know. I think my brain just tried to explain some words with other English words I know, as explained by Claire Park.
The main reason the nonsense words work is because of how they are said and the place they occupy allowing the brain to assign a meaning to them.
That's how English sounded to me when I didn't know it
Huray!!!! For the narrator! Great job! Seriously the annimation seas to amaze me everytime but it couldn't truly be enjoyed without the narrators!
Jabberwocky Sounds like a creature that luna lovegood would know a lot about
"frabjous..."
Thanks for teaching me a new word.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
Me: *reads the title of a book called «Jabberwocky»*
Also me: I don’t see why it wouldn’t make any sense!
Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!
I was expecting to see a video about the world's best hip hop dance crew, but all i got was a poem that put my brain in knots.
Who believes that TedEd has improved your knowledge a lot?
This animation and the narrator , both conveyed the poem so nicely that we actually felt the poem throughout the video
Alice in the wonderland anyone?
TED ed can make gibberish look beautiful and understandable. Hats off to the animator!!! What a marvellous creation!!
At 0:21. Looks like the map of Europe 🤔
Also looks like the map of Haiti.
This is very legit. I love the animation, the narrator, and the poem as well. This shows that sometimes nonsense poem can make a best poem. Good job!
I wonder if this had any influence on Skyrim’s “Wabbajack”
When i saw the title i said to my self
"Why does this same sound familiar?"
ALICE IN WONDERLAND!!!
I THOUGHT THE SAME but no one's talking about it
This poem tells us that all words are man made and there is no concept of a natural word.
can we take a moment to appreciate the essence the narrator's voice adds to this and the beautiful art by the artist!
(I'm still trying to process what I've just watched)
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin
What?!! There's a Jabberwocky Halloween Dance Mix out too! ua-cam.com/video/tHBKY-2jwAc/v-deo.html
im so earlyy
Nobody:
6 year old me with a plastic IKEA knife: 1:13
Did anyone else notice the jabberwockks body walking around at the end?
"he chortled in his joy" always gets me cause it sounds like he just died
Love the narration as much as the animation, my #1 fave nonsense poem. Long live forever the great Lewis Carroll. Jabberwocky is one of my fave words by him. ❤ ♥️ 📚 ✏️ 😍🥰😘
Wouldn’t mind watching a full-length movie with this incredible animation and the mind-boggling narration. Wouldn’t mind at all....
This must be where the Jabbawockeez dance group came from
The narration, animation, the music and all the little noises in the background go so well together!!
Thanks for the treat, Ted-ed😁
i love how smooth and cartoony the animatoin is
It may be nonsense but to me this poem is one of the best literary representations of childhood and how, when you are young , you are given warnings about being careful when playing which do seem somewhat amplified but then end up feeding into the dimension of play making everything seem like a quest.