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King implies Poe's fiction is whiny and sulky. (Pouting is when someone has a sulky facial expression. Pouty little poet with an opiate affliction! King wants Poe to take notice as he raps, saying his rhymes will rock, or be better than Poe's.) Kings typically live in castles, so this is a pun on his own surname.

Castle Rock was the fictional setting of some of his books, taken from the mountain fort in the famous William Golding novel, Lord of the Flies. (Continuing from the previous line, Poe is on King's turf. In the King's house now watch the Castle Rock! He could also be pointing Poe out to a stock of clothing in Hot Topic as a continuation of the previous line.) In essence, he says Poe is a depressing and drunk idiot. A laughingstock is someone that everybody mocks, so King is calling Poe and his works laughable. Poe had alcohol problems towards the end of his life and this was widely believed to be the cause of his death. There's a melancholy alcoholic laughingstock King tells Poe that the way he dresses is dark and Gothic.) Poe's black outfit is considered quite a distinguishing piece of clothing. (Hot Topic is a clothing store that sells dark goth-like clothing. A fop is a man who is concerned with their clothes and appearance, and Poe's dark, gloomy, dreary style is seen as what a goth would wear.) (Talking shop means to discuss work, especially of a technical, jargon-filled nature. Oh, you want to talk shop, you gothed-out fop? The word 'jerk' has a double meaning: jerk could refer to King himself as an insult, and to jerk or beat off means to masturbate.) Stephen King: Poe claims that King just masturbates and ejaculates in one of his own books to write. Poe may be referring to himself in this line, declaring that even in his grave, he is a more passionate writer than King.

('The Tell-Tale Heart' is a story by Poe that tells of a murderer hearing the sound of his dead victim's heartbeat. The Tell-Tale Heart beats soft in its grave, while this jerk just beats off on a page! 'Locked in a cave' refers to the plot of Poe's story, 'The Cask of Amontillado', where a man traps another man inside a cellar in the catacombs.) (Poe wrote most of his works when he was alone and in places that, for lack of a better phrase, would make a man think too much during times of great stress, which explains why he wrote them while sobbing in a rage. (Snap!) I wrote them locked in a cave, while I sobbed in a rage.

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Poe uses alliteration for this line, or a series of words with the same sound at the beginning, and assonance, or the repeating of vowel sounds in a series of words.) He continues, saying that his poems beat the ones written by posers, or people who copy him, implying King is one of them. (Poe first says that King's flow is so-so, or just okay. Also, King has won The Bram Stoker Award before, which is an award for 'superior achievement' in dark fantasy and horror writing.) Poe claims that King just tries to copy Bram Stoker and then tells him to get out because the battle is already about to be over. Bram Stoker was an author known for his stories in the horror genre, including the novel, Dracula, one of the most famous horror stories in history. ('Faux' is a French loanword that can mean false, fake, or phony, meaning that something is made to resemble the original item as closely as possible, but it is still not the real thing. You're a faux Bram Stoker, so scram, the show's over! Poe insults King's ability to write scary stories by claiming King writes them for young children, which would mean they are not scary at all.) Beverly Cleary was an author of books for children and young adults. (Poe says he will always be better than King and that King will never even get close to Poe's greatness. Your books are as eerie as Beverly Cleary! I'll forever be better you'll never be near me. (Poe shows off and says that anyone who crosses him should fear him. It also insinuates that King has no chance, and it is a joke to come up against him.)īut y'all don't hear me! All should fear me! Calling him a joker means that King's books are funny and over the top, not scary. In short, Poe will strangle King with raps in trochaic meter until he cries. Poe also uses trochees in his raps, specifically in his first two lines. (A trochee is defined as 'a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable', and one of the most prominent examples of trochees is 'The Raven', by Poe. I will choke this joker with a trochee till his cheeks are teary! (Ahh!) Poe says he spits raps against King, even while he is weak and weary.)

('Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary' is the first sentence in 'The Raven', a famous poem written by Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, as I spit this weak and weary,

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