In the novel Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, two narrative innovations are worth particular mention: Atwood’s unreliable narrator and her use of poetry in a work of prose fiction. Most of Atwood’s first-person narratives are characterized by a particular kind of unreliable narrator: one who seems to be a wonderfully reliable observer of details but who is…

Definition: Romantic Poetry refers to a literary movement that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, primarily in Europe. It was characterized by an emphasis on emotion, imagination, individualism, nature, and the sublime, in contrast to the rationalism and order that dominated the earlier Enlightenment period. Romantic poets often explored themes of personal freedom,…