Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Great Regulars: The significance of this poem lies

less in its content, and more in its connotations.

An acrostic poem--one in which the first letter of each line spells out a word--A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky has been read for years as a tribute to [Lewis] Carroll's young muse Alice Pleasance Liddell, who inspired his famous protagonist.

Carroll met Liddell when she was a child in 1855, after befriending her elder brother.

from Huffington Post: The Weekend Poem: 'A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky' By Lewis Carroll

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