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What Stirs In A Poet's Mind?
Written By dieseldelicious on Apr. 6, 2008.
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I was reading people's opinion on why a number of poet's often live abstract, lonely lives. I was intrigued by the topic simply because I am a poet, and I too have always felt a little seperated (and sometimes disconnected) from the world around me. And it's not as if it prevents me from developing solid relations with people around me, but I do feel alone most of the time.
Below is one of the responses to the forum I was reading on this subject:
"I think that it's having a higher level of intellect and social awareness that inevitably leads such people into seclusion, since the masses only appreciate intelligence in small doses and don't have a problem in believing what they're told without questioning authority. Creative people are usually thinkers and seek knowledge through research and the pursuit of self education, whether it be institutional or initiated by their personal inbred curiosity and relentlessly pursued. Since they tend to think outside of the 'box', they are generally loners if they don't instinctively and inherently feel alone due to the fact that the majority of people tend to be non thinkers like sheep following the flock giving in to trends, peer pressure and 'the united way."
What is YOUR opinion on the life of a poet? Why do YOU think that poet's often live lonely lives? Do you disagree with the aligation?
johnbakeronline
Written Apr. 7, 2008 / Report /
Poets die young.
http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/not-for-long/
PS. Is an aligation some kind of croc?
moonshadows
Written Apr. 9, 2008 / Report /
the comment above is stupid! Lol. Anyway ur post is wonderful. Im a poet and i feel like that most of the time. I dont feel so alone anymore.
johnbakeronline
Written Apr. 10, 2008 / Report /
That you don't feel so alone anymore is nice. But is it real?
dieseldelicious
Written Apr. 12, 2008 / Report /
@johnbakeronline, let me put my two sense in here. You seem to have a very sure opinion about the life (or lack thereof) of a poet. So here's what I think. I think that poet's often find themselves lonely not because they feel intellectually superior to the world around them, but because they feel segregated from the rest of the world- certainly no fault of anyone else's but simply their own, in that they're so busy in their minds and feel such a heightened awarness of the world around them, they have no time to communicate with much else but the paper they write on. This is where they feel most comforted.
I do agree with the article you presented to a certain extent. I believe that poets and writers alike are a very intense breed, and those who are intense are more like higher stressed. Those who are highly stressed are more prone to illness, those who get ill often have a lower immune system, and that never leads toward a promising road of health.
Some poets can write in a sort of disconnected way in that they can create beautiful words without having to be inspired. Most of this is called "rap". lol just kidding (kind of) I enjoy rap. Nothing against it. But there are those poets who have to live with their hearts broken in order to feel the pain that gets those beautiful, powerful words out. And I think THOSE are the ones who risk health complications in their future.