In my opinion, Twain is satirizing romantic art and
literature through the character of Emmeline Grangerford. The Romantic movement was one
that really emphasized strong emotions.
If you look at the
kinds of art and poetry and stuff that Emmeline likes or that she creates herself, the
stuff is full of really strong emotion. It is all rather caricatured with all this
stuff with "Alas" in the title. It is obsessed with death, which is of course a very
emotional thing.
So I think Twain is starizing Romanticism
because he has Emmeline being so emotional over things like dead
birds.
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