Perhaps it was the era in which Charles Bukowski lived which weighed the most upon his subject matter. In doing so one can look beyond the word usage and those words which we commonly refer to as “curses” or “blasphemous” and look at the overall message which is trying to be conveyed. One needs to keep in mind that it is not their personal convictions which make a poet. ![]() Though many would argue that Charles Bukowski’s poems are more rants than poetic, there are others which would point to the emotions which are captured within the poems. Where poets of the older eras typically kept with a rhyme scheme or in some instances deliberately tried to make their works metaphorical and mystical, Charles Bukowski’s works tend to lean more to a conversational tone. With over 120 poems, most of these are easily associated with because of the manner in which each of these poems comes forth. Charles Bukowski (1921-1994) is a poet of bluntness.
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