Charles Lutwidge Dodgson passed on at 65 years of age on 14 January 1898. The poem is an odd ode to inconclusiveness. His is known for the books, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and its sequel, “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” (1871), as well as the poems, “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky,” all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. 'Humpty Dumpty’s Recitation' by Lewis Carroll from 'Alice in Wonderland'. It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less. He became a writer, a mathematician, a logician, an Anglican deacon, and a photographer. When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. Humpty Dumpty’s philosophy of naming demonstrates both the arbitrariness of lanugage and the capacity of literature to convey meaning. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born on 27 January 1832 in England. I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked.
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