Dreams and drudgery

Who has the right to write

and that too poetry.

Has there been much poetry written 

by farmers, field workers, the poor or women  

The reason why all the poetry, I mean, the known poetry is

written by those who had the money, the leisure to dream!

It doesn't mean that those who lived a humble life didn't dream, or didn't write.

They did, but according to Ranciere, "visibility" differentiated between 

the two, "men of leisure and men of necessity", 

those who are seen and 

those who remain unseen, and unheard, 

those who think, and those who cannot think!

Ranciere's bourgeois masters were creators and thinkers while their workers who could have been artists, poets, and thinkers, in their own right, were not able to/couldn't create.

Yes, those who had the time, the money and the luxury of having leisure as their vocation,

and those who led a life of drudgery.

They also wrote, but remained uncelebrated!

In the French revolution when workers were revolting, to some extent, it was their war against their 'invisibility', through their writing, their journals, news papers and poetry.  

It was not only a revolution brought by swords, guns, or guillotines, but of words too!

In India, the famous Sufi poet, Kabir, was a weaver!

So dreams and drudgery can go together! 

Ranciere The nights of labor.Blog Piece: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in Ranciere’s The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France (1989) | NYU English Department Research Group on Transnational Everyday Life

Ranciere, interview Jacques Rancière; Politics and Aesthetics – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics)) (my-blackout.com)

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Virginia Wolf believed, that a woman's economic independence is the key to her literary career.