• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, two of America’s most famous writers, both based their bodies of work on people paying the price of losing to temptation/sin. Although to be fair I couldn’t think of any popular songs about that.

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      20 days ago

      I know it’s not a popular take, but I don’t like Poe or Hawthorne. I always felt like their shallow exploration of death/edgy topics really only appealed to the immature or unintelligent reader.

      I can see their work on a shelf between The Nightmare Before Christmas and a Dashboard Confessional CD- maybe a Jr High textbook as well.

      I wouldn’t use them as an example.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        20 days ago

        It’s unpopular because instead of just saying you don’t like them or personally think they lack depth you go straight to insulting their readers and fans.