The Hunting of the Snark letters asking for the meaning of the poem, Carroll often replied that he did not know. However, in an 1896 reply to one letter, he agreed with one interpretation of the poem as an allegory for the search for happiness. Widely varying interpretations of "The Hunting of the Snark" have been suggested: an allegory for tuberculosis, a mockery of the Tichborne case, a satire of the controversies between religion and science, the repression of Carroll's sexuality, and a piece against vivisection, among others. According to Cohen, the poem represents a "voyage of life", with the Baker's disappearance caused by his
Korobeiniki (poem) Korobeiniki (poem) Korobeiniki (Коробейники) is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov first published in the October 1861 issue of "Sovremennik" magazine. Nekrasov dedicated the poem to Gavriil Zakharov, his peasant friend and a regular hunting companion who'd prompted him the storyline of the poem. According to Nekrasov's sister Anna Alekseyevna's memoirs, her brother wrote the poem in his home village, right after returning from a hunting trip. Prior to its appearance in "Sovremennik", "Korobeiniki" was published in the Red Books series started by Nekrasov specifically for the peasant readership; these books were distributed by the "ophens", vagrant traders, in the rural