Men and women write different poetry. Discuss

  Personally, I do tend to write from the 'I' point of view as that very reason that I even attempted to write poetry was to expel feelings that simply did not need to live within me. That aside, I have written quite a few pieces that indeed did not involve my personal feelings or life. I believe that men and women as separators for poetry (or any writing for that matter) is prepostruous as an assumption. Just because I sing quite a few bass notes does not make me a man, I am merely a woman with an extremely low capability within the scales of voice, I also can hit a few soprano notes! Applying this theory to writing I can see how it cannot be assumed that men and women automatically write differently....rather, PEOPLE write differently. In my class this semester, I have received some poetry (without names on them) to critique, I absolutely thought they were written by a specific person and was blown away when I found out not only who wrote it, but I had the sex of the person wrong as well.