My friend Ang is putting together a little Halloween party and before I attend, I'm expected to read selected poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. (To add to the creepy Halloween feeling.) I'm really excited because first of all, I prefer classical literature to any other type of reading and secondly, I haven't read anything with the intent of discussing it since my American Literature class in college. (Yikes, how long ago was that??!)
The best part about classical literature is the way people used to talk. I love the difficult, classic language because it makes the story richer. That being said, I started reading "The Masque of the Red Death" and started wondering, "Where's my dictionary??" I had no idea what sagacious, untenanted, or what mummer meant. But with a handful of definitions under my belt, I was seeing irony and foreshadowing and all sorts of fun literary stuff. Thanks Ang! I can't wait!!
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My personal favorite is The Cask of Amontillado. I can remember reading it in school and thinking how incredibly brilliant and devious the main character was.
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