The Sluggard

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"The Sluggard" is a moralistic poem by Isaac Watts which depicts the unsavory lifestyle of a slothful individual as a negative example.

Lewis Carroll parodied Watts' poem in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with "'Tis the Voice of the Lobster."[1] Carroll's version replaces the sluggard (a negative example of laziness) with a fearful lobster (a negative example of weakness).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Martin Gardner. The Annotated Alice.


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