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A 3 page paper which examines how Huckleberry Finn could be seen as a poet. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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wild and mischievous boy who has a great adventure and then ultimately returns home. But, according to the notions of Ralph Waldo Emerson the character of Huckleberry Finn could well
be described as a poet. The following paper examines Huckleberry Finn as a poet, based on Emersons perceptions. Huckleberry Finn as a Poet Most readers would clearly not
even envision that Huck Finn could be a poet, or that he represented the nature of a poet for he was an undereducated mischievous boy who seemed to always get
in trouble, fight against the system, and essentially seems as though he is a simple minded young man. But, according to Emerson one could well see Huck as a poet.
This is quite evident in reading Emersons work titled The Poet from his second series of essays from 1844. He begins the essay with a poem that begins as follows:
"A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way" (Emerson 1-3). In many ways one could well argue that this is
a clear description of Huck Finn for he was wise, wild, perhaps fickle and thus moody, and always pursued his games in a very magical and adventurous manner. Throughout
the essay, however, Emerson points out other elements of the poet that seem very reflective of the character of Huck. For example, he notes, "The sign and credentials of the
poet are, that he announces that which no man foretold...he knows and tells; he is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which
he describes" (Emerson). Emerson also notes how "He is a beholder of ideas, and an utterer of the necessary and causal" (Emerson). In Twains story it is Huck who sees
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