Phantasmagoria And Other Poems

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems is a splendid collection of poems written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson pen named Lewis Carroll. It was Carrolls longest poem published in 1869 divided into seven Cantons illustrated by A. B. Frost. Carroll has written a supernatural amazing poem in his narrative he shows interaction between Phantom ( a ghost) and a man Tibbets. Author expresses that on a winter night while he returned home he felt surprising presence of someone else that was a white wavy gloomy appearance of a ghost. Carroll says ghosts are not unlike humans. Like humans they follow hierarchy do jobs to haunt. They live in society and follow the social rules violation means sufferings. As men fear to dark they also fear. They live in gloomy and dark environment and they fear from light. In the end ghost realized he came in wrong house so he left in a friendly way shaking hands. Some other pleasing and appreciating poems are-The Sea Dirge A Game of Fives Poeta Fit Non Nascitur Fames Funny Trumpet Hiawathas Photographing A Valentine Hunting of the Snark etc.