Brother And Sister : Lewis Caroll : : Sister Poems : :

SISTER, sister, go to bed!
Go and rest your weary head.”
Thus the prudent brother said.

“Do you want a battered hide,
Or scratches to your face applied?”
Thus his sister calm replied.

“Sister, do not raise my wrath.
I’d make you into mutton broth
As easily as kill a moth”

The sister raised her beaming eye
And looked on him indignantly
And sternly answered, “Only try!”

Off to the cook he quickly ran.
“Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
To me as quickly as you can.”

And wherefore should I lend it you?”
“The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
I wish to make an Irish stew.”

“What meat is in that stew to go?”
“My sister’ll be the contents!”
“Oh”
“You’ll lend the pan to me, Cook?”
“No!”

Moral: Never stew your sister.

Lewis Carroll

This comic poem by the master of nonsense verse for children sees a brother advising – nay, threatening – his sister to go to bed, otherwise he’ll turn her into mutton stew. The moral of this silly light- minded little poem? The Moral is revealed in the last line : ” Never stew your sister.” : : One blogger Susan Williams conveys this in poem hunter : On 06 December 2015 : “Faithful to the truth. Siblings fight and fight and fight. I guess it is how they get prepared for real life.” : :

First the brother tells the sister to go to bed. Then the sister threatens the brother and the brother threatens the sister in return. The brother then goes and tries to get a pan to make his sister into stew. The Cook refuses.

In any quarrelsome conflicts between Brother (s) And Sister(s) ,an unwritten chargesheet of trivial complaint for the wrong doings and blaming for his or her fault is common affair. When it is aggravated for some reason , the agitating children may become threatening and wrathful. No judge will find any deeper meaning in their childish behaviours. Brother and sister should be nice to one another as their living and growing together is ineluctable. Lewis Caroll , too had brothers and sisters. Whatever , the poet is staging a nonsense conflict of brother and sister. The picturesque figure of foiling against the background of funny threatening on the issues during the goodnight sleep hours might not harm the sisterhood or brotherhood, let us hope : : Brother And Sister By Lewis Caroll : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India August 14 , 2022 : : : : : :