The Walrus and the Carpenter

"The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his book Through the Looking-Glass, published in December 1871.

The Walrus said To talk of many things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings Callo-Callay No work today!

But answer There came none And this was scarcely odd Because They'd been eaten Every one The characters of the Walrus and the Carpenter have been interpreted many ways both in literary criticism and popular culture.

[2] Walter Russell Mead supposed they represent aspects of Protestant and Transcendentalist societies during Carroll's life.

[6] A series of six episodes starring Hugh Griffith, Felix Aylmer, and Daphne Heard was made by the BBC in 1965.

The Walrus and the Carpenter story appears in Disney's 1951 animated film Alice in Wonderland where it is told by Tweedledee and Tweedledum.