Poet

Word POET
Character 4
Hyphenation po et
Pronunciations /ˈpəʊɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Poet"

What do we mean by poet?

A writer of poems. noun

One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical. noun

One who composes or indites a poem: an author of metrical compositions. noun

One skilled in the art of making poetry, or of metrical composition; one distinguished by the possession of poetic faculties or susceptibilities; one endowed with the gift and power of imaginative invention and creation attended by corresponding eloquence of expression, commonly but not necessarily in a metrical form. noun

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. noun

See under Laureate. noun

A person who writes poems. noun

A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) noun

A person who writes poems.

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Poet

The word "poet" in example sentences

POOR MALONE! if he had ever heard the old adage, that “_none but a poet should edit a poet_,” he would have saved his midnight oil, and solicited a ray from ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The Poetry of Kevin Davies___(ragline)___Kurdish Globe: Reflections of a Kurdish poet--Part III___(ragline)___Kurdish Globe: Reflections of a Kurdish poet--Part II___(ragline)___Kurdish Globe: Reflections of a Kurdish poet--Part I___(ragline)___The Gonzaga Bulletin: Li-young Lee: exterminator, restaurateur and poet___(ragline)___The Brooklyn Rail: Heaniverse___(ragline)___The Times-Picayune: New Orleans writer Peter Cooley finds poetry in the morning light___(ragline)___The Brooklyn Rail: A Poet Stretches___(ragline)___Democrat and Chronicle: A poet writes of the ghosts of his Rochester youth___(ragline)___Sacramento News & Review: Is B.L. ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

From ancient times in Greece and later in Rome, the leaves of the laurel tree were used to create crowns in honor of the greatest poets of their times, thus leading to the term poet laureate. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The poet is a word craftsman, a master of language. ❋ Unknown (1987)

As a poet, pure and simple, as a refined verse maker in all directions, Mr. Dunbar surpasses Mr. Whitman by far in the truest significance in the term poet, and he is justly assigned the first place among Negro poets. ❋ Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp (N/A)

To understand this nonsense of poor Renzo’s, the reader must know that, amongst the lower orders in Milan, and still more in the country, the term poet did not signify, as among all educated people, a sacred genius, an inhabitant of Pindus, a votary of the Muses; it rather meant a humorous and even giddy-headed person, who in conversation and behaviour had more repartee and novelty than sense. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The title poet laureate - officially announced today as having been given to Carol Ann Duffy - owes its name to the laurels used by ancient Greeks to crown their most celebrated poets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while," he says.

Even a poet who wants to break from tradition, if the poet is ambitious, will do so and in effect be addressing that tradition by the very act of breaking from tradition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Occasionally the poet is actually confronted with objects or people that will not remain beyond arm's length — such as the Leech ❋ Unknown (2008)

His insights into the minds and hearts of others, whether they be family and friends, or figures from the world of painting or music, are consistently sharp and clear, yet this poet is always aware of the limits, and the possible limits, of our knowledge: as much as he wants to understand and penetrate the mystery of the other, he never forgets that it is this very mystery that makes all communication miraculous. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Baillie's theory of who can be a poet is also egalitarian. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the people who have most influenced me as a poet is a poet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She made me have to reassess my understanding of what a poet does, of who a poet is and what makes a poet a poet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A new interview with a poet is available for download and there is an extenisve archive. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He is what I call a poet of the Metaphysical School of photography. ❋ The Year In Pictures (2008)

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