Phantasmagoria and Other Poems — 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 It is Lewis Carroll s longest poem Phantasmagoria is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost a Phantom 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