The Hunting of the Snark he delights to tell."" The poem was printed in "The Hunting of the Snark" with permission from Chataway's mother. Included with many copies of the first edition of "The Hunting of the Snark" was Carroll's three-page, religious tract to his young readers, "An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice"". Largely written on 5 February 1876, "An Easter Greeting" explores the concept of innocence and eternal life through biblical allusions and literary allusions to Romantic writers William Blake and William Wordsworth. Gardner suggests that Carroll included the tract as a way of balancing the dark tone of the poem.
The Walrus and the Carpenter The Walrus and the Carpenter "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appeared in his book "Through the Looking-Glass", published in December 1871. The poem is recited in , by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. The poem is composed of 18 stanzas and contains 108 lines, in an alternation of iambic trimeters and iambic tetrameters. The rhyme scheme is ABCBDB, with masculine rhymes throughout. The rhyming and rhythmical scheme used, as well as some archaisms and syntactical turns, are those of the traditional English ballad. The Walrus and the Carpenter are the characters in