A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Seven-Hundred-And-Sixty-Three

I have a poet that I know I am going to want to discuss in a video at some point, but it is a bit complicated, as the reason that I want to bring it up is more to address some larger questions.  The poet I am discussing is Gabriele D'Annunzio, who was a very talented writer, but also a terrible human being and one the progenitors of the fascist ideology in Italy.  This was a man who bragged about the multiple rapes he committed against female servants and poor women, as well as a political figure seminal to the development of fascist ideologies in Italy after World War I.  At the same time, as I have said, he is also considered to be a great poet.  This is the reason that it feels important and appropriate for me to bring him up and discuss his work as part of discussing poetry.  Often, I feel as if many people think there is something inherent to poetry or poets that is moral, or that those whose ideologies are so abhorrent are not really capable of crafting good poetry.  I have heard people question whether it is possible to write good right wing poetry, for example.  If nothing else, it seems important to remember, to consider it.  I am not certain I can nail down exactly the reason, at least not yet, but I suppose that is part of the point of doing this kind of thing.  I know I am not quite ready to tackle this, though, partly because I still have to do a lot of research and partly because I think I want to be a bit more accustomed to making videos before I go into something of this sort.