Reflection: "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

Both poems by Lewis Carroll are more or less nonsense peoms. "The Jabberwocky" tells the story of a boy slaying the Jabberwocky and happiness returning to the land thereafter. It features a number of made up words that can really have any meaning the reader wants to give them. Despite being made up it still follows the general rules of poetry making it sound nice. It has rhyme and rhythm."The Walrus and the Carpenter" at least uses real words but the story, events, and characters are strange. It tells of the two characters from the title walking on the beach where they meet a group of oysters. They manage to get some of them to follow them and then proceed to eat them. It is hard to say if either of these peoms really had any greater meaning. There have been various different interpretations of each, many of which make sense, but probably none of them were what the author intended.They could very well be just silly poems with no real reason or meaning.