Böcker av Aka - Lewis Carroll Charles Dodgson

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems is a splendid collection of poems written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, pen named Lewis Carroll. It was Carroll's 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, Fame's Funny Trumpet, Hiawatha's Photographing, A Valentine, Hunting of the Snark etc.

Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking- Glass was published in 1871, it's a sequel to Alice Adventures in Wonderland. It's a valuable amusing pearl in the children's literature. Carroll includes themes like reverse viewing and time running backward. While reading this book every child wishes to explore such a hilarious, fantastic and venturesome world of Alice. Alice was playing with kittens suddenly she became curious to see the world beyond the mirror. She climbed over the fire mantle place to see beyond the hanging mirror and in a great surprise she stepped down in a magical world. It is a snowy winter night, she enters in a house, finds an exciting poetry book Jabberwocky there. She leaves the house and enters in a garden flowers are lively they speak with Alice. In her full happiness, she meets a queen. She bewilders that chess pieces can interacts with her and these are very small to pick.