Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky, Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass, the Hunting of the Snark, the Annotated Alice, John Tenniel, Alice Liddell, Works Based on Alice in Wonderland, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, All Saints' Church, Daresbury, Arthur Rackham, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Theophilus Carter, Vorpal Sword, You Are Old, Father William, Bandersnatch, Gavin O'keefe, Unbirthday, Alice's Shop, Alice in Wonderland Dress, the Mouse's Tale, 'tis the Voice of the Lobster, All in the Golden Afternoon, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat, Red Queen's Race, the Nursery "Alice", How Doth the Little Crocodile, Jubjub Bird, the Old Sheep Shop. Excerpt: 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. As recited by Alice to the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, the first stanza describes a vain and stylish lobster who pretends not to fear sharks, but is in fact terrified by them. In the second stanza, an owl naively attempts to share a meat pie with a greedy panther. Although the poem's final line is left incomplete, the owl's unhappy fate is evident to the reader. Analysis "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster" is a parody of "The Sluggard ", a moralistic poem by Isaac Watts which was well-known in Carroll's day. "The Sluggard" depicts the unsavory lifestyle of a slothful individual as a negative example. Carroll's lobster's corresponding vice is that he is weak and cannot back up his boasts, and is consequently easy prey. This fits the pattern of the predatory parody poems in the two Alice books. Full text 'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and
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