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Compare And Contrast Edgar Allan Poe And The Jukebox

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Elizabeth Bishop's "Edgar Allan Poe & the Jukebox" is a unique poem that was posted to the public after her death, the poem is about the comparison of the jukebox's variety to play different music genres and the duality of man. In one scene, the jukebox plays a lighthearted tune while in another it plays a heavy and dark song. The jukebox plays music that "pretends to laugh and weep before it descends to drink and murder" (Bishop, n.d.). One unique aspect is that the poem's protagonist, Poe, references the indulgent convenience that technology brings to the public. According to Poe, technology "pleasures are mechanical and know beforehand what they want and know exactly what they want" (Bishop, n.d). The poem could be improved if more sentences
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