The Walrus and The Carpenter real meaning?

Question

ok what is the real meaning behind the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll? im sure it has a meaning, i mean the guy that wrote it, was a math and logic teacher at oxford. so everything has to have a reason,

Answer 1

Think sexually about it. You have the old walrus (and the carpenter) luring the young oysters (girls) and devouring them.

Lewis Carroll was a math teacher, but he was also in love with a very young girl. A lot has been written about the sexual symbolizism in "Alice In Wonderland" and "Through The Looking Glass."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Walrus And The Carpenter Poem

Answer 4

One level to the Walrus and the Carpenter could be read to be a warning to the innocents of people that would mislead them and "eat them all up;" just like the Walrus and the Carpenter persuaded all the 'young Oysters to walk with them,' a walk that ended in a feast for the Walrus and the Carpenter.
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OR THERE"S THIS ONE

There are many interpretations of the poem, the majority of which depict the Walrus and Carpenter to be corrupt leaders (whether it be in politics, religion, or business) leading their followers astray (in the form of the little oysters). The poem is often suggested to illustrate the nature of genocide.

One such interpretation is that the Walrus and Carpenter symbolize the British government: the oysters symbolizing the lands the British government colonized and monopolized over time that didn't belong to them, such as China, India, and Africa.

Martin Gardner noted in The Annotated Alice that when Carroll gave the manuscript for Looking Glass to illustrator John Tenniel, he gave him the choice of drawing a carpenter, a butterfly, or a baronet (since each word would fit the poem's meter). Tenniel chose the carpenter. Because of this, the carpenter's significance in the poem is probably not in his profession. Although the two characters of the poem were interpreted later as two political types, there is no indication of what Carroll may have intended, and Gardner cautions the reader against '...too much intended symbolism in the Alice books.' It should be noted that it was Carroll's character The Duchess who, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, said that "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it". Many portions of the Wonderland tales can be tied only to sheer whimsy, and while Carroll's life observations do make themselves obvious from time to time, it is possible that "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is not one of them.
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I think the mean is what you get out of it . Hopes this helps.

Answer 5

my son said it means to do your own remodeling because you can't trust carpenters.

Answer 6

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probably. he basically means that any1 can destroy sumthing but it takes sum1 with skill and will power 2 create.

Answer 7

You've never seen Dogma?

Answer 8

men are capable of anything.

Answer 9

I think it means he liked opium.