Quote:after carefully reading a number of an author's works, you will unavoidably get a sense of who they are as a personno i won't at least not knowingly. all i'll get is a sense of who they are as a "the" poet or writer.
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if anything i'd have said it was a guy as she rights from the male heroic perspective. Shakespeare because of the period certainly writes from the feminine POV in many of his plays and sonnets.
Lewis Carroll wrote with a child like quality and poe wrote in a sinister style but i don't know them. i can't win this debate because these people are dead but wait. ....stan rice the poet writes with style that suggests he's of or about the streets. (he isn't) Ginsberg's "a supermarket in California" doesn't really give me any meat of the man except top say he had a thing for wally whitman, Kipling's IF did tell me he was probably an old army boy in India but and this is the big. it doesn't give me any specifics. you only get those from inside stories and autobiographies. i'v seen bukowski on video and he comes across as a drunken bum. i never got that fact from his poetry. it's all summation. i get something of the person if i see the person and even then it will still be assumption. any good writer shows us what they want to show us, and a lot of the time it's fabrication mixed with something else. the emo writers who are new to poetry, they show what they often think poetry should be. we know of people because we sometimes see into their lives, hemmingway, plath, sexton, etc because of someone telling a story about them. sometimes untrue stories. so sorry but no, i don't see the persons behind the poem i only see the lying poet in the poem,