The Hunting of the Snark Gardner sees the poem as dealing with existential angst, and states that the Baker may be Carroll's satire of himself, pointing to the fact that the Baker was named after a beloved uncle, as was Carroll, and that the two were around the same age at the time of the writing of the poem. Alternatively, Larry Shaw of the fan magazine "Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser" suggests that the Boots, being the Snark, actually murdered the Baker. Also references to religious issues had been suggested, like the Baker's 42 boxes being a reference to Thomas Cranmer's "Forty-Two Articles" with a
How Doth the Little Crocodile How Doth the Little Crocodile "How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his novel, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It is recited by Alice in Chapter 2. It describes a crafty crocodile which lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile. This poem is performed by Richard Haydn in "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) and by Fiona Fullerton in the film "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1972). "How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a parody of the moralistic poem "" by Isaac Watts, which is what Alice was originally trying to recite. Watts' poem begins