ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heading South, Hester Prynne, Unreliable Narrator
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Whitman likes long lines and free verse, dickinson uses short verses and plays on valid form. Dickinson poems on death: poems undercut sentimental ideas about death. Sentimentality: often associated with women writers in private sphere. No inspiring deathbed scene: dickinson doesn"t give scene where dying gets a religious epiphany. A speaking corpse and the friends are trying to enact a sentimental deathbed scene. Death just as uncertain as the flight of a fly. Heard a fly buzz when i died: jun supposes the trivial and the momentous. A first person that retraces the events in his early life: huck finn is idiosyncratic, Fitting in old language with new world context. Lots of bad language in huck finn, it should offend and twain wanted it to offend. Twain gives us narrator speaker in unrefined and uneducated language of the lower. Interested in language and character are interrelated class. Twain wants to question the illusions his characters and readers live.
