Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Kind words are than coronets, She said, and wondering looked at me It is the dead, unhappy night and I must hurry home to tea House hauntings and strange echoes in the unique colours of Carroll brand nonsense, with just a tinge of melancholy.Meticulously rhymed and reasoned even when the subject is supposed to be silly All of these I believe are in public archive, but you ll want the version which includes Three Sunsets a series of serious, faintly darker poems Nothing short of amazing.Notable [...]

Leer este divertido poema de Lewis Carroll en el que un hombre es visitado en su casa por un risue o fantasma, me llev directamente a recordar a otro famoso esp ritu a El fantasma de Canterville , de Oscar Wilde, pero con distintos finales para cada caso Otro punto interesante es que aprend a conocer todas la categor as fantasmales inglesas y de otros pa ses que existen Muy interesante

Publicado en 1869 y con ilustraciones de Arthur Burdett Frost puede decirse que son muy buenos Me record mucho a la poes a del libro de Alicia en el pa s de las maravillas y me trajo nostalgia a volver a mi infancia.Citas hechaensilencio.a

The title poem was excellent and quite humorous The other poems were not as exceptional but there was enough dazzling wordplay and rhythm to hold my attention The illustrations were good, too All in all, a solid read I would have enjoyed it if Carroll had written about ghosts and the supernatural His take on such subject matter was fun and very clever.

Este libro s me gust Disfrut mucho conociendo la ardua vida de los fantasmas que nada tiene de f cil ni de econ mica

Well, that was fun This is my favorite kind of poetry namely, anti poetry, meta poetry, and complete absurdity Oh, and of course it has to rhyme A quick sampling of my favorites From The Gardener s Song, which should be labeled post modern, surely, if it hadn t been written in the 1800s.He thought he saw a RattlesnakeThat questioned him in Greek He looked again and found it wasThe Middle of Next Week The one thing I regret, he said, Is that it cannot speak And the introductory paragraph of Hiawa [...]

Si toda traducci n tiene una buena dosis de traici n, sta es a n mayor cuando la forma del texto original est realzada por los recursos de la m trica Acceder a Lewis Carroll, aut ntico virtuoso de la versificaci n inglesa, a trav s de una traducci n implica tener que resignarse a perder en este recorrido gran parte de su atractivo original As es.A lo mejor deber a leerlo en ingl s, pues se me ha hecho extra o su lectura en espa ol.

Read here gutenberg files 651 65 Some quirky, fun poems that highlights Carroll s weirdness Not all are great, the titular poem is probably the best, and the scheme may be seen as simplistic, but the whole experience is meant to be goofy and fun.I enjoyed A Sea Dirge as well, just because there are many people who experience similar things in just as silly of a ways.

Although prose is usually clearer than poetry, Lewis Carroll s poetry is clearer than his prose This little book of poems contains what may equally be called whimsy and nonsense it also contains humor, clever satire, and some beautiful lines the vision of a vanished good Highly recommended for anyone with a taste for poetry.

A sad little tale about a ghost who accidentally haunts the wrong house Clever and delightful

Es un libro para distraerse, sencillo, divertido Creo que contiene una minita de referencias que podr an usarse a la hora de crear m s historias.

The first poem about the ghost is worth reading The rest, not so much.

Lo esperaba m s divertido A n as pasas un buen rato ley ndolo.

a facinating collection of verse storys or story poems, not all brilliant but all interesting, nicely epic ish and often quite experimental, many of them are essentially meta poems, if that is a term, and if it isn t then it should be, they go out of themselves, having sections of self commentary, or containing within themselves comments on themselves As for the title poem itself phantasmogoria it is actually in my opinion not the best in it, though it may possibly be the cleverest and quite pro [...]

I ve been trying to get into poetry lately, and this whimsical collection seemed like as good a place as any to start Although I still struggled with archaic language here and there, the poems are generally quite modern and humorous in tone, particularly the titular one about a little ghost sharing the woes of his job Poeta Fit, non Nascitur is also a wonderful little meta verse, with a grandfather teaching his grandson how to write poetry, that ends on a suitably wry note Then proudly smiled th [...]

This is also one of my favorite poems Like The Hunting of the Snark, there is no really moral or direction it s merely the account of a man who encounters a ghost in his house, but the poetry is beautiful and the humor, like most of Carroll s, is sharp and witty.What is surprising is that this small book has annotations by Martin Gardner Whenever he annotates a book, he generally triples the length of a text in the very least not exaggerating , yet the annotations here are almost nonexistent by [...]

Lewis Carroll is all ways delightful and these poems are quite good I loved the opening short story about a friendly little ghost who came for a quick visit Only to realize he was hunting the wrong gentalman It was funny and witty.Yet the other poems who quite odd and hard to understand Yes after you pick apart all the old english you start to enjoy the words of Carroll Only problem the story were so old it was hard to relate to them today I was a wee bit disapointed in that fact but it was stil [...]

I m not a great reader of poetry but it does interest me and so I read Phantasmagoria And here a ghost lays down the rules for ghosts residing in and people accomodating ghosts It sets up what kinds of ghosts have priority in residents There is no real haunting involved It is a short read and the poetry is interesting The story line left me a little in the ozone but if you have a little spare time and like Carroll you might enjoy his poetry in this one and even find the little ghost of interest. [...]

I found this little gem at a garage sale a week before Halloween I approached it with high hopes that synchronicity was at play The poem Phantasmagoria said to be Carroll s longest unfortunately was whimsical than mysterious I got very little out of the other poems Illustrations were interesting, but overall, I was disappointed Understandable why this is not one of Lewis Carroll s better known works.

Had to read this Lewis Carroll shares my birthday the 27th so I felt I had to read something of his I was going to reread one of the Alice books, but decided to branch out.This was bizarre I d like to say fantastically bizarre, and some of it was, but most of it was just too random to get a grip on Honestly, I didn t enjoy it that much, which was a disappointment Too odd for me Not to say that other people won t enjoy it, try it yourself and see what you think.

A Sea Dirge is and excellent read for anyone who thinks the sea, with its howling waves and sopping saltiness, is overrated And In Size and Tears calls out the bean pole cockblocks of the world But A Game of Fives is eye rolling in its ageism and sexism yes, the burden on society and the predatory sexual greed of the unwed woman over age 30 is a scourge upon humanity but five of them living together in all their rebellious, spinsterish conspiracy Horror

A collection of nonsensical poems and riddles by Lewis Carroll, fraught with his typical charm, wit and flair for word play, headed by the titular Phantasmagoria in which a ghost pays a visit to a potential victim and including such compositions as ironic shanties A Sea Dirge , ironic romances A Valentine, Melancholetta , the unintelligible The Lang Coortin and some frightfully witty instructions in the art of poetry Poeta Fit, non Nascitur.

3.5 starsThis was a reread for me I still think Hiawatha s Photographing and Four Riddles are my favorites in this collection by Carroll I am a really big fan of his I have read Alice s Adventures in Wonderland multiple times.This book mixes his wit with some slightly nonsensical ideas.

I am not very knowledgable about poetry I did enjoy several of Lewis Carroll s poems They seemed to run together, and it was hard to tell when one of the poems ended, and an other began I learned something about the way his poetry was formed He wrote about the forms of his poems in a few of the ones at the end of the book.

While I wasn t crazy about the poem Phantasmagoria, there were quite a few gems spread out in this book Unfortunately, the way I read poetry and the way Kindle books are laid out do not mix I didn t enjoy the format and wished I had read this in real book form.

Some poems were good and some were too weird, not all of them worked for me Lewis Carroll s poetry is definitely not to everybody s taste My favorite poem of the bunch is, of course, the first one, Phatasmagoria , it s brilliant and so funny.

So far I have finished Phantasmagoria and I thoroughly enjoyed it I have not read any in the book however and don t know when I will continue I m a bit overwhelmed by the number of books I need to read But will finish it one day.

Overall I would rate this collection of poems as good There are three among the poems that I thought were outstanding because of the humorous, satirical and slightly snobbish tone Lewis Carroll is known for Melancholetta, A Sea Dirge and A Game of Fives.

The poem, Phantasmagora, is as good as anything else Carroll wrote I d give that four stars by itself And Hiawatha s Photography was also good However, the rest of the book does not measure up to these If, like me, you enjoy nonsense verse, I d still recommend this book.

A very interesting read as this is the first of Lewis Carroll s poetry that I have read It was fun trying to figure out the meter he was working with I would like to be able to sit and speak to a ghost for a little while also This was a free ebook for my kindle.