The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done--
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"
The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead--
There were no birds to fly.
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand:
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
By giving nonsensical combination of images, such as an interaction between a Walrus and a Carpenter, Carroll evokes the randomness of the natural world. Caroll depicts idiosyncratic imagery to establish a sense of surrealism that could be found in the natural world.
The Walrus and the Carpenter