Baker may be Carroll's satire of himself, pointing to the fact that the Baker was named after a beloved uncle, as was Carroll, and that the two were around the same age at the time of the writing of the poem. Alternatively, Larry Shaw of the fan magazine Inside and Science Fiction Advertiser suggests that the Boots, being the Snark, actually murdered the Baker. Also references to religious issues had been suggested, like the Baker's 42 boxes being a reference to Thomas Cranmer's Forty-Two Articles with a focus on the last article on eternal damnation, and Holiday's illustration to the last chapter containing a pictorial allusion to Cranmer's burning. See also Snark The Hunting of the Snark musical (1984–1986), written by Mike Batt based on the original poem. Notes References Citations Bibliography Further reading External links – downloadable formats from Project Gutenberg – collection in which the poem appears – , and – 36 pages., (see pg. 29 for examples of the usage of simulacra) – from woodblock prints provided by the Christ Church Library – high resolution scans of an original 1876 edition – website with textual analysis, bibliography and catalogue of illustrators – website for organisation devoted to the study of the poem and snark-hunting. 1876 poems Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 19th-century British children's literature British poems Poetry by Lewis Carroll Macmillan Publishers books Mock-heroic English poems Nonsense poetry