Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat

Last updated

The Mad Hatter reciting, with the Dormouse next to him, as illustrated by John Tenniel MadlHatterByTenniel.svg
The Mad Hatter reciting, with the Dormouse next to him, as illustrated by John Tenniel

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat" is a verse recited by the Mad Hatter in chapter seven of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . It is a parody of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". [1]

Contents

Text

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky. [2]

Context

The Hatter is interrupted in his recitation by the Dormouse. "The Bat" was the nickname of Professor Bartholomew Price, one of the Dons at Oxford, a former teacher of Carroll's and well known to Alice Liddell's family. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Gardner, Martin (1998). The Annotated Alice . Random House. p. 98. ISBN   978-0-517-18920-7.
  2. ↑ Carroll, Lewis (1867). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan. p.  103.
Quill and ink.svg

This article related to a poem is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.