/lit/ - Literature

>>4915231
If you have a question about the world, just make up an answer. It will probably be right!

>>4101970
>judge art by intent, not actual effect
Dude, no.

>browsing poetry section
>pick up e.a. Poe collection, happy with my superior taste
>girl rounds the corner, I rapidly turn face to face with her
>she's clearly scared
>hold up the poe book to impress her
>say "hey there poe-fect"
>she gags from being overwhelming with sexual desire, starts to back away
>I advance on her, "poe's my favorite.....poe-et" and laugh loudly
>booming maniacal laughs make girls wet
>boom her with my laugh again as she trips over a rack of books and stumbles backwards into the fantasy section
>tell her fantasy isn't for little girls, that she should read some poe
>can't think of any new poe puns, so re-use the poe-etry one
>she says "I prefer wordsworth, his words are worth more
>am disgusted at her heresy
>tears shoot from my eyes like geysers
>flare out my cape and run out the bookshop shouting "nevermore"
>there never was more

English 3 junior in highschool.
Have to write a 3-4 page research paper on Edgar Allan Poe and how His life and alcoholism was intertwined with his writings.
Wat do?
also, greetings from /b/. this is not a raid.