Lewis Carroll

Phantasmagoria Lewis Carroll

Phantasmagoria is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. "Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society there is a hierarchy, and ghosts are answerable to the King (who must be addressed as "Your Royal Whiteness") if they disregard the "Maxims of Behaviour". Table of Contents 1. Phantasmagoria 2. Echoes 3. A Sea Dirge 4. Ye Carpette Knyghte 5. Hiawatha's Photographing 6. Melancholetta 7. A Valentine 8. The Three Voices 9. Tema Con Variazioni 10. A Game of Fives 11. Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur 12. Size and Tears 13. Atalanta in Camden-Town 14. Four Riddles 15. Fame's Penny-Trumpet