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For reference the full text of the poem & the poem it parodies are here.

Dodgson/Carroll was a mathematician, a logician, and a clergyman. There are some indications of all that in S3 & also in the poem as a whole.

Some darker undertones, characteristic I think of Carroll.

The whiting tries to tempt the snail by offering a chance to get nearer to France. Lots of luck, snail! The animals are food animals. Even, poetically, the mock turtle.

Carroll was surreal before surrealism.
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