speaker of the poem
The speaker of the poem is a phrase often invoked by writers on social media as a way to refer to the deliberate distinction between themselves as the author of a poem and the narrator or main character of the poem, often conflated by readers because of context clues such as "I", "me", "my", etc., for example, when immersion, not autobiography, is the author's intent.
Sometimes used ironically along the lines of "separate the art from the artist" in subtweets, discourse, etc.
Sometimes used ironically along the lines of "separate the art from the artist" in subtweets, discourse, etc.
Reader: Oh, I really loved the poem you wrote where you talk about stiffing the barkeep at a Mexican brothel and getting left for dead, how are you still alive?
Writer: That was a Malcolm Lowry-inspired poem based on his novel Under the Volcano, I've never been to Mexico. You're mixing up me and the speaker of the poem, in this case, a re-imagined Geoffrey Firmin.
Writer: That was a Malcolm Lowry-inspired poem based on his novel Under the Volcano, I've never been to Mexico. You're mixing up me and the speaker of the poem, in this case, a re-imagined Geoffrey Firmin.
speaker of the poem by sootynemm July 2, 2026
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