GhostontheNet (post: 1213391) wrote:...and The Premature Burial.
I guess this kind of thing is the downside of being hyper-literate in the post-literate age. Its good to hear you have a friend who is also a Poe fan, though. Even so, please don't write a story about stealing Poe's bones with her. The poor man is second only to James Dean in people wanting to do weird things with his burial site or even his spirit. I always figured The Raven basically translates to "Messenger of death prophecies to distraught narrator that he will not encounter his dearly departed Leanore in a blissful afterlife." As a body of work, I think that Poe's writing basically tells the story of how the death of a single woman (his wife Virginia, who becomes figures like Leanore, Legeia, and Roderick Usher's sister in his writing) transforms into a great cosmic crisis over the prospect of mankind's salvation. This has serious implications for the present age haunted by the so-called death of God and what Martin Luther King called "this impending cosmic elegy". It is interesting, for example, to read The Masque of the Red Death in an era haunted by the spectre of devastating biological weaponry in which we consign millions in third world countries to die of AIDS because it is not economically profitable to help them. If I ever realize my vague dreams of starting a Gothic band, I've been thinking about writing a song about it titled "The Red Death On Wall Street".Slytherine (post: 1213407) wrote:Jeez, I just KNEW I forgot one. How I forgot this one, I will never know. Poe eclipses my soul. *fangirl-ing*
I've been a fan of Poe since grade 7, but I hit the fangirl level in the last year. However, it's very depressing when you're in an "Advanced" English class that didn't even understand The Raven.
"It's about a dude who talks to a bird. Dude's kinda insane."
That is the product of my AP English 11 class. The class would be extremely depressing, however my equally Poe-happy friend sits next to me, and she is of moderate-high level intelligence, therefore we may conduct our fangirl-ing together off to the side...LOL.
~Slytherine
ClosetOtaku (post: 1213629) wrote:When I go to Otakon, I visit his grave just a few blocks away from the Convention Center.
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
SpoonyBard (post: 1225992) wrote:How To Get Your Mom To Read Comics:
My mother is a huge Edgar Allan Poe fan. A couple weeks ago I found a graphic novel called Nevermore. Comic book-style adaptations of some of Poe's stories. I read a few and then showed the book to mom. She read the whole thing before I got a chance to finish it.
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