Ironic short stories...

quoting Earthprisoner:

"sucked pretty bad"
I liked the last couple of poems you posted.

hehe thanks, those are actually the decent ones, and they aren't hard to understand at all.

"sucked pretty bad"
I liked the last couple of poems you posted.

I have read his stuff and I do like some of them. Though I have to admit I'm not very poetic. I attempted to write poems a while back and I think I sucked pretty bad. I like literature that is straight forward and easy to understand.

When I was 14 he was my hero. I was a terrible reader of literature then so I think I was probably not the best Poe fan--I basically spent much more time reading a biography of Poe and trying to be like him than I did reading his poetry and stories. A year ago I read Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and that affected me the way some of Poe's short stories did when I was a teenager--so I probably prefer Wilde to Poe these days. But it's been a while. I remember "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Masque of the Red Death".
After I was into Poe I discovered Ingmar Bergman's movie "The Seventh Seal" about the bubonic plague in Europe. I've seen it many times--I think it's a bit like Poe's "Masque of the Red Death"

Peace,
EarthPrisoner(Kevin)