The Hunting of the Snark of the poem as a child. Additionally, it has also been alluded to in fiction, such as "Perelandra" (1943) by C.S. Lewis; television, such as "" episode of the British TV crime drama "Lewis"; court rulings, such as in Parhat v. Gates (2008); a phenomenon in superfluidity; graph theory; geography, as a Snark Island and Boojum Rock exist in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal; Japanese animation, such as "Ghost Hound" (2007–08); and in video games, such as "Half-Life" (1998) and "American McGee's Alice" (2000). Various themes have been suggested by scholars. According to biographer Florence
What Work Is sometimes been criticized for leaning too hard on his blue-collar "bona fides". The critic Adam Kirsch, writing in "The Times Book Review" in 1999, noted, accurately enough, that “in his autobiographical essays he goes out of his way to tell us that he is essentially a peasant.” David Baker, writing about "What Work Is" (1991) in the "Kenyon Review", said Levine has “one of our most resonant voices of social conviction and witness, and he speaks with a powerful clarity…What Work Is may be one of the most important books of poetry of our time. Poem after poem confronts the