 | Art - 1992 - 126 pages
...words will all go the right way again." "It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!" Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found there Lewis Carroll, 1872. Alice expresses the sentiments... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...(though we might aspire to greater honesty). 'It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!' (You see, she...seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't know exactly what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate 3i° However,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...reversed printing and reads "Jabberwocky" by holding it up to the mieror she has just passed through. "'Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!'" Alice exclaims. "'However, somebody killed something: that's clear.'" For commentary on the lines,... | |
 | Eric Williams - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...solicit his help in understanding a diffieult, in her words, a ""rather hard" poem, which, as she muses, "seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are!"1 Hearing such a humble confession, this egg-shaped bundle of words cannot resist demonstrating... | |
 | Rachel Fordyce, Carla Marello - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 304 pages
...killed something"); (v) a metatextual intervention of a second order by the author about Alice's words ("You see, she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all"). Besides the poems, there are also some conversations which cause commentaries and tentative explanations:... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 pages
...language both subjectively and objectively. (Alice's comment on the nonsense poem "The Jabberwocky," "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't know exactly what they are!" describes his sense of language perfectly, provided that we stress "exactly"... | |
 | Paul S. Drzaic - Science - 1995 - 450 pages
...3 NEMATIC CONFIGURATIONS WITHIN DROPLETS "It seems very pretty/' she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she...ideas — only I don't exactly know what they are !" Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass Interesting things happen when liquid crystals are confined... | |
 | Peter Verdonk (ured.), Jean Jacques Weber - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 304 pages
...very pretty,' she said when she had finished i/, 'but it's rather [italics of last word as original] hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess,...herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow i/seems /ofill mv head with ideas-only /don '/exactly know what they are\' (Carroll 1871/1970: 197)... | |
 | Marina Yaguello - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...grammatical organization itself is meaningfui. Alice, on hearing the nonsense poem fabberwockg, says 'Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas— only I don't exactly know what they are!', and adds, deriving an interpretation from the grammatical structure 'However, somebodg killed something:... | |
 | Jay F. Rosenberg - Philosophy - 1998 - 374 pages
...refrigerator. (C5) An undetectable mouse lives in my pantry. When Alice first read Jabberwocky, she remarked "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't know exactly what they are!" (C1)-(C5) are rather like that. Each of them might very well fill your... | |
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It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand ! " (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) " Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas — only I don't... 
