Edgar Allan Poe: The First Emo Poet
June 19th 2008 04:27
I try very, very hard not to be pretentious and snarky when people say stupid things about authors or works of literature.
But I was reading some comments on another literature blog today, and someone said the following:
"I like him for the same reason everyone else seems to, he is emo..."
He was referring to Poe.
Seriously?
SERIOUSLY??
This, of course, prompted a long exchange of jokes in an IM conversation with a friend of mine. (References to Poe wearing girls' pants and guyliner, listening to "Carriage-seat Confessional," and cutting himself with his quill were included, natch.)
Something is wrong with people today.
(Oh, and the same guy listed poems by Poe that he liked, which included The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and Fall of the House of Usher. All of which are stories, not poems. *Sigh* Idiot.)
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