The Hunting of the Snark focus on the last article on eternal damnation, and Henry Holiday's illustration to the last chapter of "The Hunting of the Snark" containing a pictorial allusion to Thomas Cranmer's burning. The Hunting of the Snark The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). As for the word "Snark", Carroll did not give
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem idea of nightingale as melancholic, the poem relies on the tradition and gothic descriptions to guide the poem. Eventually, the nightingale is what brings the narrator back to his topic after diverging from it in a manner similar to John Keats's use in "Ode to a Nightingale". Unlike tradition, the nightingales represented an experience that Coleridge had with his friends, the Wordsworths. During the moment within the poem, a female is described that seems to be a combination of Dorothy and the title character of "Christabel". There is no mention of Coleridge's wife, Sara, which separates "The Nightingale" from the