Monday, September 22, 2008
All Poets Are Hippies?
Although many potray poets as being tree hugging, lit up, dirty people; they're many different kind of poets and many different genre of poetry. The stereotype that "All poets are hipies" comes from the year of woodstock so i believe, when they saying was "Make love not war", like that ever got anything finished. I think many poets are lazy yes indeed. They might work on a piece for hours on end without leaving their house or doing anything besides focusing on their writing. I guess everyone has their own definition of "FUN". Any way, cant say all poets are hippies though b/c i can think of two off the top of my head that were deffinatly not tree huggers; Edgar Alan Poe and Emily Dickenson. One was just a crazy old man that didnt know what to do with himself after he lost his wife and the other was a loon that never left her house EVER! Therefore i conclude that all poets are downright crazy. ....hope i dont turn into a poet for no reason at all. lol
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Yes, the stereotype that all writers are crazy is a good one, too. Edgar Allan Poe gets a bad rap, but most of that is because of a scathing (and mostly untrue) biography one of his enemies wrote. As for Emily Dickinson, it's true that she didn't leave her house much, but she witnessed and participated in plenty of "drama" with family and friends in and around her house and land. Good examples, though!
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