Usuku lokuzalwa luka-Master Poe lwesi-208.
Namuhla, ngoJanuwari 19, u-Edgar Allan Poe ihlangana iminyaka 208. Bambalwa kakhulu. Ushiye konke kubuphakade bakhe njengo omunye wababhali abakhulu zesikhathi sonke. Akunandaba uhlobo, isikhathi kanye namakhulu eminyaka baqhubeke nomsebenzi wakhe. Wayengomunye wabahamba phambili futhi usazoqhubeka abe khona kuze kube yilapho umhlaba ushona ebumnyameni besiqalekiso sakhe. Njengendlu ka-Usher.
Akunakwenzeka ukubhala okuningi ngaye noma lowo msebenzi omkhulu futhi omangalisayo. Ukuze? Into ebalulekile ukuthi uyifunde. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, njengengane, njengomuntu omdala, noma nini. Kepha funda. Ake nje sigubhe lolu suku. Emakhulwini amabili eminyaka edlule futhi kungakabiphi selokhu idolobha elibandayo lase Boston wabona okhazimulayo, omkhulu nolahliwe wezingane zakhe ezizelwe. Yini esingayikhetha kulezo zindaba nezindaba? Ingakwazi? Angicabangi kanjalo.
Amakati amnyama, amabhungane egolide, amagwababa ahaqayo, izindlu ezithwalayo, izithombe zokufa, izinhliziyo ezixoxa, ukufa okubomvu, ama-gorilla abulalayo, abaseshi abangenaphutha ... Akunakwenzeka ukubhala imiqondo eminingi, izithombe, ukuzwa nemizwa. Ubuhlanya obuningi nokwesaba. Ukwesaba okukhulu nokwesaba. Ukucabanga okuningi nokuyiqiniso. Kuhle kakhulu. Ingxenye yethu yonke yemimoya yothando, yama-gothic, engaqondakali, esabekayo, enothando noma edidekile idlidliza ngawo wonke amagama asepeni likaPoe.
Ukubuka kwakhe, ukuqhuma kwakhe (eyenziwe noma izipoki nobuthakathaka babo), amandla abo ukulandisa izihogo nemibhoshongo, ukucela umcabango omnyama kakhulu, yeqe yonke imikhawulo. Njengoba enza ngobukhona bakhe uqobo, aphenduka waba ngumlingiswa othakazelisayo futhi odabukisayo, obathandekayo nobubele. Njengoba ekhonzwa njengoba enqatshiwe. Ngoba, njengakho konke, kunabantu abangamthandi uPoe. Kuyaqondakala (noma cha). Kuyamukeleka futhi.
Ingcweti noma isidakwa. Ukuphazamiseka noma ukuphazamisa. Umuntu obuthakathaka noma iqhawe. Kwenza mehluko muni. Wabhala izindaba ezazedlula bona. Wabhekisisa ukujula nokujule kakhulu kwemvelo yomuntu ngokungafani nomunye umuntu. Mhlawumbe ngoba wayefuna ukufinyelela kuzo ngokuthanda kwakhe. Futhi uyakufeza. Ukuhlangenwe nakho kwakhe kokuphila okunesiphepho noma umane umbono wakhe womhlaba omzungezile, waleyo mpilo. Okushiwo. Akukhathaliseki. Kwakwanele ngalokho nangokuthathwa umcabango wakhe.
Ngaphakathi kushiye amagama angacimekiyo in memory of futhi ithonya abalobi nabaculi abayinkulungwane nanye kumakwe umkhondo wabo wothando nokwesaba ngokulingana. Amathonya nokuzilibazisa okwalandela okwenziwe, eminyakeni edlule, ngomsebenzi wakhe.
Noma ngubani okwazile ukubhala "Inkosi Yomshayabhuqe" wayeka ukuba ngumuntu. Ngenxa yakhe, futhi sishukunyiswa isihawu esingapheli maqondana nomphefumulo olahlekile, sithanda ukumnikela ngathi ufile.
Yilokho akubhalile Robert Louis Stevenson enkulumweni nge-Poe. Lokho uStevenson ayengakwazi ukuthi uPoe, noma yena, ngeke esafa. Lokhu kwenzeka lapho okwenzayo empilweni yakho kukwazi ukushiya uphawu lwaso kuso sonke isintu esikufunda ngesikhathi. Futhi namuhla ingxenye enkulu yalesi sintu ingathanda ukuthi uPoe azalwe nsuku zonke. Noma yini impela nguye owabuya kulobo bumnyama nezihogo ayekwazi kahle ukuzichaza. Bangaphezu kweyodwa abakhokhiwe, ngineqiniso.
UBerenice, Arthur Gordon Pym, Prospero, Ligeia, Madeleine Usher, Augusto Dupin… Namanye amagama amaningi. Ukugodola nokuqalekisa okuningi, ukuphuka kwemikhumbi nezinhlekelele. NOMA Annabel lee, lelo gama le-protagonist yenye yezinkondlo ezinhle kakhulu ezikhona, futhi ezingabhalwanga kabusha, futhi ngeke zibhalwe. Uthando esimweni esimhlophe sokuphelelwa yithemba nokuphelelwa yithemba, lokwehlulwa nokushiywa, sothando nobuhlungu obungenamkhawulo.
Alukho usuku olufana nanamuhla lokugubha lolu suku lokuzalwa eba yisipho se funda ngisho umugqa owodwa nje de Umthombo nependulum, of Amacala eRue Morgue, of Icala likaMnu. Valdemar noma kusuka UTamerlane.
Noma alukho usuku olufana nanamuhla lwe bona elinye lamakhulu wokuzivumelanisa yemisebenzi yakhe ebhayisikobho. Ngokuyinhloko, labo badutshulwa ngumkhiqizi waseBrithani ongafi Hammer, nomqondisi Roger Corman ekhanda. Futhi akukho okungcono kunokubona nokuzwa ubuso obuhle kakhulu, izibalo namazwi aphefumulela impilo nokufa kubalingiswa nasezindabeni zabo. UVincent Price noChristopher Lee bangababalisi nabahumushi abafaneleke kakhulu kunabo bonke bomsebenzi kaPoe. Kepha kunezinhlobo eziyinkulungwane nohlobo olulodwa, njengalezo ezifakwe kulesi sihloko.
Halala, Mnu Poe. Esihogweni esesabeka kakhulu noma epharadesi elihle kakhulu. Sizohlangana futhi ngelinye ilanga. Kuzo zombili lezi zindawo.