For Open Mic Night at Sulfur Books last
night—see Poems
of Hope and Promise:
Open Mic Night at Sulfur Books for more information about the local
Open Mic Night—I considered reading Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of
the Snark. Unfortunately, when I did a trial run of my reading, I
discovered that the poem was too long my a lot. Eventually, I decided to
read only one section of the poem, and I composed the lines above as an
introduction. I also offered a short prose description of the poem and of
the characters mentioned in my reading.
Carroll’s poem is described as “An Agony, in
Eight Fits.” Martin Gardner, in his book The Annotated Snark,
provides the following explanation:
Agony is here used in the old
sense of a struggle that involves great anguish, bodily pain, or
death. … Fit has the double meaning of a convulsion and a
canto.
I read the eighth and last fit, titled “The
Vanishing.”
— LED,
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