/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18843015]

why is poe never discussed here?

[Anonymous No.18843023]

>>18843015
>poe

[Anonymous No.18843026]

>>18843015
he's too good for you

[Anonymous No.18843193]

Literally no English-language19th century authors are discussed here.

[Anonymous No.18843209]

>>18843015
Didn't he marry his lil cousin

[Anonymous No.18843259]

>>18843015
His prose is bland and his stories aren't that imaginative. I haven't read him since high school, and unlike Fitzgerald, Twain, or Shakespeare, I found nothing in his stories compelling enough to revisit his work later in life. I wasn't inattentive or uncaring about lit in high school, so I go with my gut and take my initial disinterest as cause to not revisit him.

[Anonymous No.18843294]

>>18843259
>His prose is bland and his stories aren't that imaginative
>reads fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.18843296]

>>18843015
He's really popular with normies so we don't have much use for him honestly; mention that you like Edgar Allen Poe and nobody cares, mention somebody like Baudelaire and at least you seem slightly well-read because he's more obscure

[Anonymous No.18843302]

poe-st your favorite stories

[Anonymous No.18843461]

>>18843209
based

[Anonymous No.18843470]

>>18843296
So you read only what gets you the most attention.

[Anonymous No.18843475]

>>18843015
Poe's work will probably be the first to be fully encrypted via NFTs and deprived from the common trust. Extremely high level stuff that erodes reality

[Anonymous No.18843569]

all my homies hate amontillado but the mask of the red death is poggers

[Anonymous No.18843600]

>>18843015
Well, what do you want to discuss about Poe?

[Anonymous No.18843611]

>>18843015
Normies love him, even women.

/lit/ won't admit reading anything popular, only dry western canon and tradplarp philosophy.

In reality, Poe is one of very few American authors genuinely respected outside of the USA, might even be #1.

[Anonymous No.18843615]

>>18843015
That should be a smug Pepe on the right.

[Anonymous No.18843643]

I had to read a lot of Poe in highschool but I haven't thought of him since

[Anonymous No.18843658]

Poe is doge. Is always think of three of his stories the one with the maelstrom, the one where they find a piece of metal in some ruins and it says it’s Manhattan it turns out they are in the future, and the one with the city through the jungle.
Also the one convo about life death etc I think is Minos and mena but I’m not sure.

[Anonymous No.18843660]

>>18843611
i keep forgetting he was amerifag, not really forgetting but my brain really wants to classify him with the brits

[Anonymous No.18843673]

>>18843193
based

[Anonymous No.18843811]

>op pic
this meme just keeps on giving

[Anonymous No.18843825]

>>18843015
Soijaks are normally cancer but this one is funnier than it has any right to be

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.18843862]

Love Poe.

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere—
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year:
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir—
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Here once, through an alley Titanic,
Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul—
Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll—
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the ultimate climes of the pole—
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole.

Our talk had been serious and sober,
But our thoughts they were palsied and sere—
Our memories were treacherous and sere,—
For we knew not the month was October,
And we marked not the night of the year
(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)—
We noted not the dim lake of Auber
(Though once we had journeyed down here)—
Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,
Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn—
As the star-dials hinted of morn—
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
Out of which a miraculous crescent
Arose with a duplicate horn—
Astarte's bediamonded crescent
Distinct with its duplicate horn.

And I said: "She is warmer than Dian;
She rolls through an ether of sighs—
She revels in a region of sighs:
She has seen that the tears are not dry on
These cheeks, where the worm never dies,
And has come past the stars of the Lion
To point us the path to the skies—
To the Lethean peace of the skies—
Come up, in despite of the Lion,
To shine on us with her bright eyes—
Come up through the lair of the Lion,
With love in her luminous eyes."

But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said: "Sadly this star I mistrust—
Her pallor I strangely mistrust:
Ah, hasten! —ah, let us not linger!
Ah, fly! —let us fly! -for we must."
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings until they trailed in the dust—
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust—
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.

Cont

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.18843869]

>>18843862
I replied: "This is nothing but dreaming:
Let us on by this tremulous light!
Let us bathe in this crystalline light!
Its Sybilic splendour is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty tonight!—
See!—it flickers up the sky through the night!
Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
And be sure it will lead us aright—
We safely may trust to a gleaming,
That cannot but guide us aright,
Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night."

Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom—
And conquered her scruples and gloom;
And we passed to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said: "What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?"
She replied: "Ulalume -Ulalume—
'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!"

Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere—
As the leaves that were withering and sere;
And I cried: "It was surely October
On this very night of last year
That I journeyed—I journeyed down here!—
That I brought a dread burden down here—
On this night of all nights in the year,
Ah, what demon hath tempted me here?
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber—
This misty mid region of Weir—
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."

[Anonymous No.18843957]

>>18843302
haha, i get it.

[Anonymous No.18844003]

too archaic to enjoy reading
not archaic enough to fellate myself over
same with hemingway

[Anonymous No.18844132]

>>18843611
>In reality, Poe is one of very few American authors genuinely respected outside of the USA, might even be #1.
I don't give a fuck what French faggots think.

[Anonymous No.18844173]

>>18844003
I've spent like 5 minutes trying to understand you

[Anonymous No.18844184]

>>18843015
too many trannies and philosphy fags to discuss gothic literature

[Anonymous No.18844465]

Read this every night, finished it in 3 days. Its not that difficult, you don't need any complementary text. Anyone with a high school education should be able to read this. If you really want a challenge then read it in its original language.

[Anonymous No.18844509]

Poe used to be THE author for big tittied goth gfs that wanted to larp as deep and brooding because his prose was serviceable and his aesthetics on point.
With the rise of the average internet nerd aesthetic he was replaced with Lovecraft for the more weird look.
Wille I like both, Poe and HPL, I wouldn't mind a RETVRN TO TRADITION to see more big titty goth gf slampigs rising to the opportunity.
Yes I'm reducing everything to aesthetics here but that is kind of the point.

[Anonymous No.18844693]

>>18843296
This is really ironic considering Baudelaire was obsessed with Poe

[Anonymous No.18844706]

>>18843015
Not sure the answer to your question but I took a college class with a professor who married into his family. Her husband is a descendant of his brother. Random but there you go.

[Anonymous No.18844720]

>>18844509
>be Poe
>genius author
>godfather of horror, sci-fi and detective genre
>got a special permission to marry loli cousin
>self-destructed with booze and opium after she died

>be lovecraft
>pulp magazine writer
>ghastly tentacles, save me niggerman!
>incel, married divorced jewess who left him quickly because he couldn't fuck
>died because he was afraid to go to a doctor

There's no comparison

[Anonymous No.18844760]

>>18843015
I seriously enjoyed The Cask of Amontillado. Was probably the only required reading in my english course in college that I actually liked. Everyone else in my course including the lebo professor seemed to hate it though. Why is this? Also rec me some Poe if I liked it. It had a very brutal yet whimsical vacation like feel to it.

[Anonymous No.18844770]

>>18844173
basically >>18844003 and >>18843296 are saying that Poe is not good enough to read for pleasure/for fun, but he's not obscure/difficult enough to make you feel smart/look smart after reading him, so he has no purpose

[Anonymous No.18844781]

>>18844760
The Fall of the House of Usher, Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart

Probably the most influential horror shorts of all time

[Anonymous No.18844809]

>>18843015

The power creep and screen explosion have reached ridiculous levels.

[Anonymous No.18844828]

>>18843862
The rhyming words with themselves thing is strange, and the repetition of it is obtrusive, but it kind of works anyways. It just feels so heavy, and foreboding, like a tragedy replaying in your dreams every night and you can't stop it or change anything. I like it.

[Anonymous No.18844830]

>>18843015
>For the love of Science, Montresor!

[Anonymous No.18845165]

Poe is one of the greatest writers of all time.

[Anonymous No.18845199]

> Poe
> Nonce
> End of

[Anonymous No.18845203]

>>18844509
How can I be cool aesthetically as a man

[Anonymous No.18845332]

>>18844809
based

[Anonymous No.18845680]

>discuss why poe is never discussed
>anything but discuss poe

At this point the mass uncoordinated avoidance of talking about poe could itself be a poe story.

[Anonymous No.18845692]

>>18843259
>poe
>bland prose

He was one of the greatest masters of poetic device in the history of english print. Criticising him only shows your ignorance.

[Anonymous No.18845698]

>>18844720
based

[Anonymous No.18846052]

>>18844720
>incel, married divorced jewess who left him quickly because he couldn't fuck
That's not true, according to later interviews with her he fucked perfectly fine. She divorced him because he would forget she was Jewish and start going on /pol/-tier antisemitic rants in front of her.

[Anonymous No.18846096]

Why did he do it bros? Fortunato seemed like a nice guy, even if he was a freemason.

[Anonymous No.18846109]

>>18843015
What story of his is referenced here?

[Anonymous No.18846119]

>>18846109
nvm, was easy to google
it's The Cask of Amontillado

[Anonymous No.18846155]

Poe is problematic and outdated, so he has less appeal in the modern age.

[Anonymous No.18846534]

He wrote an essay called "The Rationality of Verse" which is very good for learning how to write poetry and understanding it on a more basic level. It's a good read, pretty short too.

[Anonymous No.18846581]

>>18843862
>>18843869
Didn't your dad cum in an anons mouth then let him spit it in your baptism water? The only taste you have is for a hot load of splooge in the chops bud

[Anonymous No.18846640]

>>18843302
the one with the crow and the eyeball or something

[Anonymous No.18847867]

Deserves bump

[Anonymous No.18847901]

>>18843015
Because Poe was the best Teletubby and there's no arguing.

[Anonymous No.18847934]

>>18843209
Yes, and?

[Anonymous No.18848440]

>out walking last night
>find complete works of poe book in a little free library
>bring it home
>it smells kinda funny

Should I keep it? It's readable and dry, but I can't really tell when the smell is. I don't think it's mold but I don't know for sure. It might be cigarette or cigar smoke.

Do I ask someone else to smell my Poe and let me know if they think it's bad?