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[[File:The_Hunting_of_the_Snark_plate_1.jpg|frame]]▼
| title = The Hunting of the Snark
| original title = The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)
| caption = Plate No.1 from the Henry Holiday illustrations
| author = Lewis Carroll
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A ragtag group hunts the Snark
| genre = Narrative Poem
| publication date = March 29, 1876
| source page exists = yes
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
}}
{{quote|''[[It Was His Sled|For the Snark ''was'' a Boojum, you see.]]''}}▼
'''"The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)"''' is a [[Narrative Poem]] by [[Lewis Carroll]], telling the story of a group of [[No Name Given|unnamed]] adventurers as they search for the elusive Snark, a vaguely-described creature which lives on a remote island. The poem may be considered a [[Spiritual Successor]] to "[[Jabberwocky]]" from ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]'', and contains several of the same creatures that are mentioned in "Jabberwocky".▼
▲{{quote|''For the Snark ''was'' a Boojum, you see.''}}
▲"The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)" is a [[Narrative Poem]] by [[Lewis Carroll]], telling the story of a group of [[No Name Given|unnamed]] adventurers as they search for the elusive Snark, a vaguely-described creature which lives on a remote island.
Worth noting is how the poem was constructed - the page quote is the last line, which was the first line that Carroll thought of. The rest of the poem was made to build up to it.
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{{quote|"Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!"
(They were all of them fond of quotations ) }}
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Modern viewers are often confused as to what a [[wikipedia:Bathing machine|bathing machine]] is, seeing as they haven't been used since locker rooms became common. They're also mentioned briefly in the ''Alice'' books.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: One illustration portrays the crew with two goddesses, who are supposed to represent Hope and Care.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Many literary scholars believe, with good reason, that the Baker is a caricature of Carroll himself. The biggest evidence of this comes in Fit 3 where he says, "A dear uncle of mine, after whom I was named..."; Carroll's full name was Charles Luttwidge Dodgson, and he had an uncle whose first name was Luttwidge.
* [[Bit Character]]: The Billiard Marker and Bonnet Maker really don't do much during the whole story. One member of the crew, the Boots, could well be [[The Ghost]]; he's mentioned once, but doesn't even appear in any illustrations.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: All the crew, to a certain degree, but the Butcher especially. He's described as someone who "looked an incredible dunce", but is able to teach the Beaver "more in five minutes far more than all books would have taught it in seventy years."
* [[Captain Obvious]]/[[As You Know]]:
{{quote|"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks,
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* [[Courtroom Antic]]: The Barrister's dream.
* [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: Pretty much everyone on board who got any useful skill in the first place.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Fit 6, where the Barrister falls asleep and dreams of an odd trial in a courtroom where the Snark is the defense, judge, and jury.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Most of the characters.
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]:
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That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked." }}
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: The Butcher and Beaver become this after the former gives the latter a lesson in mathematics in Fit 5.
* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]]: As well as several mentions in the text, it's notable that the Bellman's bell is in every single illustration.
* [[Hey, You]]: Played with, due to the Baker having forgotten his own name:
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** Also, snarks look grave at them.
* [[The Musical]]: [[wikipedia:The Hunting of the Snark (musical)|One was made]] of it in [[The Eighties]].
* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Snarks have a hard time understanding jokes, as the Bellman explains:
{{quote|The third is its slowness in taking a jest.
Should you happen to venture on one,
It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed:
And it always looks grave at a pun.}}
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The story follows a crew of 10 people (or, rather, 9 people and one Beaver) of vastly different backgrounds and skills.
* [[Rule of Three]]:
{{quote|"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
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Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true." }}
* [[True Companions]]: The Beaver and the Butcher become this:
{{quote|Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
Have seldom if ever been known;
In winter or summer, 'twas always the same—
You could never meet either alone.}}
* [[Theme Initials]]: Everyone's [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|appellation]] starts with a B.
* [[World of Chaos]]
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