S4 Ep 3: The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll

Today's poem is a humerous, nonsensical narrative poem from chapter four of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The poem is recited to Alice by Tweedledum and Tweedledee who ignores her request for help to get out of the woods. The poem tells the story of a walrus and a carpenter who were walking along the beach. They encounter a group of oysters and lure them into joining them for a walk, only to be eaten by the end of the poem. 

The poems' meaning and characters have been interpreted many ways in literary and popular culture, most famously perhaps in The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" which was based on a (misreading) of the poem. 

Read the chapter here.