Why although poets continually write poetry about women, most of the poets have remained away from women?

Answer 1

Most of the poets have remained away from women. Most of the great novelists were not interested in women. Most of the great painters were afraid of women for the simple reason that either you can paint or you can be married: you can't have two wives -- together both will kill you.

Answer 2

Where do you get the idea that poets "continually" write poetry about women? I can"t think of any.

And which poets have "remained" away from women? Certainly not Byron - "mad, bad and dangerous to know", as Lady Caroline Lamb said. So he can't have "remained" that far away.

Are you just banging a weird drum?

Answer 3

To give another example, Yeats did not "remain away" from women: he was in love with Maud Gonne, proposed to her, and even proposed to her daughter after Maud's death! He married somebody else, but it was Maud Gonne who stayed away from him, not the opposite. But maybe you are thinking of the old Petrarchan cliché of the inaccessible woman and Muse: the poet writes because he is rejected by the woman he is in love with. I don't think this is relevant nowadays.

Answer 4

I thought women are also poets!!

Answer 5

Very wrong conception.