Carroll blends a recognizable style and tale with somewhat unusual vocabulary in "Jabberwocky." As readers may discover from Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, most of his imagined words have meanings, but their first impression inside the poem is one of bewilderment and folly. He uses this as a device to show the difference between what we think is real and what is not. Although it seems that Carroll was trying to write something serious, he does so using nonsense words and phrases. Reading this poem can be fun if you try not to take it too seriously!