What's your favorite poem?
If you mean which one I have thought about the most, then maybe my answer would be “Jabberwocky”


So true! Fun fact: I was really into poetries before I started reading and writing poetry myself, so I’ve read a lot, and “Jabberwocky” stands out as one of the coolest.
It’s so nonsensical, and yet by only using nonsense Lewis Carroll still manages to really effectively capture an artistic mood of creepy and uncanny. Like, Carroll is very good at coming up with an image and then poeticizing it in a way that captures the feeling of looking at it and pondering it. Consider this passage, which I think serves as a good example:
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch3!
I love how it’s casually horrible – not “creepy,” exactly, but almost too horrible to really bear thinking about. It could be the title of an Edgar Allan Poe story in which a guy discovers the “frumious bandersnatch” is secretly eating his family. The fact that Carroll then goes on to describe the “frabjous” as “a noble quest” and the “mimfic” as “the True Muse” is both very funny and nonsensical, and yet Carroll makes it feel like it’s part of the same story.
Is the frumious bandersnatch3 the sequel to the frumious bandersnatch2?

Yeah, there’s a whole series

Ooooh a series of bandersnatches! What are the tropes? Are they more of an enemies to lovers vibe, or maybe a cute coffeeshop AU???

They’re enemies. But the frumious bandersnatch is a notorious enemy who has lots of fans. Just imagine a Fight Club situation where the “Iron Monkey” of bandersnatches is female, and the “Tyler Durden” character is someone who attempts to take over as the rival bandersnatch and attract the monkey’s fans by threatening them and doing worse things than the monkey ever did

And then they have sexual tension, right Frank?

They are also frantic bandersnatchs
Posted on 19 April 2023 at 0:04am.
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Is the frumious bandersnatch3 the sequel to the frumious bandersnatch2?
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ok but like that’s low key an actually good poem, thanks Frank
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ok but like that’s low key an actually good poem, thanks Frank