Interpretations
Various theories have tried to elucidate the text or parts thereof.
Richard Kelly theorizes that The Hunting of the Snark was "Carroll's comic rendition of his fears of disorder and chaos, with the comedy serving as a psychological defense against the devastating idea of personal annihilation".
Edwin Torrey and Judy Miller suggested that the poem is based on the life and death of Carroll's uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, one of the Commissioners in Lunacy, who had been killed by an asylum inmate in May 1873.
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