Maybe reading this will spur your imagination? Check it out.
Below link written by Tim Hayes:
Teaching Composition: The Teaching Persona:
*etymological roots of “persona” — which actually means “mask”
The mask permits the poet to say things that for various reasons she could not say in her own person or could say only with a loss of artistic detachment; it permits the poet to explore various perspectives without making an ultimate commitment; it is a means for creating, discovering, or defining the self; it prevents the poet from being hurt by self-exposure or being led astray by the limitations of her own vision; it is a means for expressing anxieties and frustrations, or ideals that the poet may not be able to realize in her own life but to which she is committed….
From Chery’s Collab on www.myspace.com
Think about this and you might understand poets a lot moor.
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