Editing Haddocks' Eyes (section)

==Haddock's Eyes==

The White Knight explains to Alice a confusing nomenclature for the song.

{{poem quote|text=
"You are sad," the Knight said in an anxious tone: "let me sing you a song to comfort you."
"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
"It's long," said the Knight, "but very, {{em|very}} beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it—either it brings the {{em|tears}} into their eyes, or else—"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause.
"Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called {{'}}''Haddocks' Eyes''{{'}}."
"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.
"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed.
"That's what the name is {{em|called}}. The name really {{em|is}} {{'}}''The Aged Aged Man''{{'}}."
"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the {{em|song}} is called'?" Alice corrected herself.
"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The {{em|song}} is called {{'}}''Ways And Means''{{'}}: but that's only what it's {{em|called}}, you know!"
"Well, what {{em|is}} the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really {{em|is}} {{'}}''A-sitting On A Gate''{{'}}: and the tune's my own invention."
}}

To summarize:

*The song's '''name''' is '''called''' ''Haddocks' Eyes''
*The song's '''name''' is ''The Aged Aged Man''
*The song is '''called''' ''Ways and Means''
*The song '''is''' ''A-sitting on a Gate''

The complicated terminology distinguishing between 'the song, what the song is called, the name of the song, and what the name of the song is called' both uses and mentions the [[use–mention distinction]].<ref name="Swartz">{{cite web |first=Norman |last=Swartz |title=Use and Mention |url=https://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/use_and_mention.htm |publisher=[[Simon Fraser University]] |date=27 September 1997 |access-date=29 March 2012}}
</ref>