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GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
* a poet could not but be gay literary devices *
13The wav bi them danced; but they14Out-did the sparklg wav glee:15A poet uld not but be gay, 16In such a jocund pany:17I gazed—and gazed—but ltle thought18What wealth the show to me had brought:19For oft, when on my uch I lie20In vant or pensive mood, 21They flash upon that ward eye22Which is the bliss of solu;23And then my heart wh pleasure fills, 24And danc wh the daffodils. A poet uld not but be gay,. gay.
Advot of queer theory claim that both heterosexualy and homosexualy are socially nstcted and that there is nothg “natural” about any sexual inty. The dividual and his or her wrgs are no longer nsired to be “sentially” gay or straight but stead are ponents a broad polil disurse. 1947)—but the vast majory of amic lerary studi of gay wrers follow s dictat.