Joyce Kilmer wrote the poem “The Proud Poet”. There are many different poems with this name, but we’ll stick to the one that Kilmer wrote. The poem is about a poet that is visited by a devil of some sort - the details on what the devil looks like physically are fuzzy. All it says is that the heart is full of sin and eyes are full of laughter.
The poem details what is “left out” when a woman is writing poetry. It talks about the rich traditions of male poets, which the devil points out are “equal to” the works of a woman’s needle. The poet refuses to listen, hence why she lists out the male poets and what she brings to the pot by writing her own poems.
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