Thread
| Gay men better poets than straight men? unknown 21 Aug 08 10:01PM | Thread Closed |
I think so, does any one object?
|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? OKcomputer 21 Aug 08 10:06PM | Thread Closed |
It's subjective. Honest poetry from one gay man to another might not leave much room for, say, a woman seeking to see herself in a poem, or a man wishing to summon the image of his favorite girl into his mind.
Word of advice: rid yourself of the words 'better' and 'worse' in regard to art. That doesn't mean you can't have opinions. You should work harder to validate them.
Unless you want to seem like a complete fuck to everyone around you.
Coz: Nobody will say it to your face. ;)
|
|---|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? unknown 21 Aug 08 11:07PM | Thread Closed |
I don't know, I mean, a straight man as a poet? I can only picture him making lots of double entendres that are completely unintended, him focusing on the literal, while hilariously bawdy to everyone else. Meanwhile, a gay man? *Everyone* knows that it's hard to write happy! Longing, sadness, desperation; these things generally make for better poems. OBviously.
Besides, everyone knows that asexuals make the best poets.
Now, opening up the field, can we get a ranking of gay men, straight men, gay women, straight women, bisexual men, bisexual women, transgendered folk (split into as many categories as you'd like), intersexed peoples (again, split as you like)... hell, let's just rig up some four-dimensional Kinsey scale of poetry quality (vertices: gender, sex, orientation, quality?). We'll plot the points on a tesseract (and that's a simple version. Think of all the exciting variables we could introduce!). It'll be fun.
-semaj, peeking in quick, like some kind of voyeur. Hello!
|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? AlchemiA 22 Aug 08 12:06AM | Thread Closed |
the poet often believes sHe is the maker of the pome while really sHe is made -- you see the heart does not differentiate -- it's an organ of awe and wonder and Love all of which have no opposite and therefore is a non-duality organ best able to see reality -- so the poet is surged by an ancient ache of longing which spills from their pen in urges transcribe'd in rhythms that rally the vision of what is really there -- as said above there is no better best but that sHe pens Truth dancing beautifully on these binary streams rushing to your eyes reflecting your dreams coalescing and caressing your neurons to excite a blush of feeling in light --
|
|---|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? merunkai 22 Aug 08 12:07AM | Thread Closed |
I think that generally gay men would be more in tune with their emotional sides, but many straight men are able to access their emotional sides needed to write poetry as well. You cant generalize saying gay men are better, because there are many straight poets that are much better than most gay men at writing poetry; just because youre gay doesnt mean you write good poetry lol.
At any rate, i think men (and women) who are more in touch with their emotions can write better poetry, because they know the material better, so to speak, but it has nothing to do with being gay (although more gay men tend to be more emotional than straight men :P)
|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? unknown 22 Aug 08 12:45AM | Thread Closed |
> I think so, does any one object?
stereotypical nonsense
i think evaluating poets according to their sexual orientation is ridiculous
|
|---|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? Mongrol 22 Aug 08 1:07AM | Thread Closed |
there's no objection here, gay or straight or whatever
as said before it's subjective, and a moot issue imo ;)
~ Mong
|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? netskyIam 22 Aug 08 2:00AM | Thread Closed |
bleh to the posit. It frosts me.
|
|---|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? netskyIam 22 Aug 08 3:03AM | Thread Closed |
only one thing for sure: we gay men are better cocksuckers, sometimes.
and for sure we both like the same thing.
|
| re: Gay men better poets than straight men? merunkai 22 Aug 08 4:09AM | Thread Closed |
o,0
|
|---|
1 2 3 | Next
|
|