I believe that you cannot avoid politics if poetry always possesses some kind of personal value. And it truly does. Diving into the Wreck symbolized Adrienne Rich's personal transformation, which was also of a political nature of gay marriage and gay/lesbian couples. Even Gertrude Stein, who said she wanted readers to look at the sound of words themselves rather than their meaning, was a personal and political writer. Because her poems were intensely related to Cubism and thoughts on the war, they had a deeper meaning than merely the sounds of words coming together. For instance, "A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass" represented the ones who caused the war and who are blind to others' differences. "The difference is spreading," she illustrates.
Poetry is not just something that anyone can write. It is real, personal, political, though-provoking, truth to some, and lies to many. It is how we allow our subconscious to rise to the surface. So, how could it not be political and personal in that same mind frame?
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