Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.