Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Southey's Ridiculously Long Footnotes
Like many of my classmates, I too disliked the footnotes in Thalaba. Unlike the footnotes from Darwin's The Loves of the Plants, which actually gave new insight to what the poem was about, Southey's use of footnotes only seemed to restate what he wrote in the poem and clutter the pages. I found myself becoming frustrated by the repetition which took away from my overall experience of reading the poem.
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Reading the poem and then the footnotes almost reminded me of reading some gothic author whose name escapes me at the moment who would repeat himself in a few different ways as a way to progress the story which really only tired the reader.
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