blog T3-16

Well recently I've been reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By: Lewis Carroll, it's a pretty good book, even though it looks like a book for children, it's not because a lot of it is really confusing, u really have to LOOK and REREAD a lot of the book to understand it T_T, and it's on the independent reading list!

I was reading this part in the story where Alice needs to recite a poem and here it is:\

"You are old, Father William," the young man said,

"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age it is right?"

"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in a the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?"

"In my youth," said the sage as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment-- one shilling the box--
Allow me to sell you a couple?"

"You are old, said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray, how did you mange to do it?"

"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."

"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That you your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose
What made you so awfully clever?"

"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
~Lewis Carroll (Page 76-79)

It's a really nice poem/story! especially because we've been doing poetry in english lately!
I had another poem that i wrote:

i'll post it next time... tmrw perhaps