Related Links for
Favorite Poems of Childhood

The Poetry of Ogden Nash: Some humorous animal poems for children by Ogden Nash.

For Better or Verse: The poem about the weather is very funny.

The Jabberwocky: This is a detailed explanation of the nonsense words that Carroll uses in his poem. Many of these are portmanteaus (words formed by using the sounds and meanings of two different words). Some of the words that Carroll made up are now in the dictionary. For example "chortle" and "galumph." This is an interesting and worthwhile essay by Cathy Dean.