I kinda love how "Strawperson teacher" is totally right and accurate
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The wacky thing about it is that this is the ONE PIECE OF POE'S WRITING you don't need to expend ANY effort to interpret because HE EXPLAINED IT ALL I mean, Death of the Author, sure, but he wrote an essay "The Philosophy of Composition" going into ithttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Composition …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vine_zak
It's this whole detailed Cliff's Notes essay telling you everything you need to know to pass an English Lit exam about the symbolism and structure of "The Raven" In-depth DVD director's commentary, he deliberately kills the magic and lets you see his whole process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vine_zak
Contrary to that annoying cartoon, Poe was a big believer in deliberately putting symbolism in He strongly believed that writing poetry was hard work and a disciplined process in which everything in the poem should support the poem's central theme ("unity of effect")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vine_zak
He deeply disliked the whole letting your unconscious mind drive your writing by the seat of your pants and being open to deep intuitive inspiration shit the Transcendentalists were into Sneered at Emerson's writing for being full of "mysticism for mysticism's sake"
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Replying to @TheRedRaptor @vine_zak
The thing in the Poe Party prologue where Poe just goes off on Emerson "I don't care what you have to say, Ralph, I never listen, because it's just gonna be something about leaves The sound of the leaves, the smell of the leaves, the color of the leaves NO ONE CARES"
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"Your poems are too long, and they have too many leaves Who the fuck would pay good money for twenty goddamn pages about leaves I write short, powerful poetry that gets right to the only subject that matters: Dead women"
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("The Philosophy of Composition" does, in fact, say outright that Poe expects "The Raven" to sell a lot of copies and make good money, because "There is no subject so poetical as that of a beautiful woman dying young"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vine_zak
Me at 15 would've agreed with him. There's a lot of young women who go through a "romanticizing tuberculosis" phase.
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Yeah I saw a tweet thread on here from someone who wrapped herself in plastic and made her friend take pictures back when Twin Peaks was on the air
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vine_zak
That’s way more dedication to the cause than I ever had.
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