And it has to be in the Horror or Gothic genre. I’m going to select a word or a place name, and I’d like you to ad-lib a little narrative using as much rhyme, assonance and consonance with that original word as you can, until it peters out or you can bring it to a fitting end. Let’s play a game to get the ball rolling. Or is the case really so clear cut? Is there actually an argument to say that the Detroit poet laureate Marshall Mathers III, also known as Eminem, is the reincarnation of 19th century author, poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe? The scary one where Mr Burns sees an eagle in a tree or something. They’re timeless pieces of writing from the horror genre which will still be appreciated hundreds of years from now.Īnd the other guy, Edgar Allan Poe? I think he’s the bloke who wrote an episode of The Simpsons. The characters are so well-formed it’s like reading the graffiti scrawled on the inside of a lunatic’s mind as his life crumbles around him. They’re works of clear literary merit, which show an inventive use of language and expert control of narrative. One of them writes long, disturbing tales with complex rhyme schemes which reveal the underlying madness, delusion and depravity in their narrators. Surely, there’s nothing that potty-mouthed gangster rapper who’s never read a poem in his life has in common with Edgar Allan Poe.
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