Now this divided thought between nonsense or not
Really I an interesting debate that is a fact
This chapter of the Pig and Pepper, is it just an act?
Here Alice found the babe turn into a pig with a snout
And the poor babe whipped at ever sneeze pepper if you please?
That horrid Duchess modelled with the artistic eye copying Leonardo's monsters
Now on looking back in Penguin guest what I found.
Lewis just didn’t like boys, too difficult to teach girls got things quick.*
*this was paraphrased from “Notes to Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland “page 310
State that in a letter written by the said Lewis Carroll and I quote
“Boys are not in my line: I think they are a mistake: girls are less objectionable.”
O I see now not so much silly nonsense but his self- expression …. Just done in a way to laugh at himself?
Obviously had some issues here that he really should have be born
Within our time to be allowed to come out and shout about how he felt
Deep inside, fancy not seeing boys as being equal to girls
Seeing them as a lost cause? Now the shoe is on the other foot
Poor boys need to be given their manly manliness back some how
To equal out the score of so many not to be seen as just pigs… well by Lewis Carroll at least.
On further reading in those notes
I stumbled on, another great piece of information
That grinning Cat, “Cheshire Cat”
Was named after a block of Cheese
Cheese from Cheshire if you please
Shaped like cats that where meant to be LIONS?
(The mould was stuffed up somehow)
Oh I must add here a beautiful poem
The original that Lewis Carroll changed
For his expression of self-hate, being male and all
So to follow after this please feast your eyes on
“Speak Gently” by David Bates from The Eolian, 1849
Really an eye opener about the change in attitudes of the times
Now many read into Alice and Wonderland
Many a meaning and a weaving but to have
Some historical content of how it was then
In Lewis Carroll’s time Alice becomes
A history lesson too, giving us more layers to see
Why did he write that and like that….. gee so many layers like onions
Speak gently! It is better far
To rule by love than fear;
Speak gently; let no harsh word mar
The good we might do here!
Speak gently! Love doth whisper low
The vows that a true hearts bind;
And gently friendship’s accents flow;
Affection’s voice is kind.
Speak gently to the little child!
Its love be sure to gain;
Teach it in accents soft and mild;
It may not long remain.
Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear;
Pass through this life as best they may,
Tis full anxious care.
David Bates from The Eolian in 1849 and in his complete works (1870)
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