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poet (plural poets)

  1. A person who writes poems.

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poet c.

  1. loot, stolen money

Norwegian

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poet m.

  1. poet

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Inflection of poet indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural Bokmål m poet poeten poeter poetene Nynorsk m poet poeten poetar poetane

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Declension of poet singular plural Common indefinite definite indefinite definite nominative poet poeten poeter poeterna genitive poets poetens poeters poeternas

poet c.

  1. poet

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  • diktare
  • rimsmed

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Thu Aug 26 17:34:20 2010

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced.

French poet Arthur Rimbaud summarized the "poet" by writing,

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!

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Sat Sep 4 06:25:30 2010

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statesman news service BURDWAN: Bengal's rebel . poet. Kazi Nazrul Islam was not remembered at his native Burdwan district on his 34th death anniversary.

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Slam poet Shane Koyczan delivers his poem "We Are More," which was commissioned by the Canadian Tourism Commission. Shane Koyczan urges ... youtube.com.

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Los Angeles Times (blog) ... but upon immersing himself in just about everything ever written about the rapper, "it became clear that he was essentially a 19th century Romantic poet ... Tupac Shakur Biography Signs Two Oscar-Nominated Writers 411mania.com A New Tupac Shakur Biopic Will Answer Why He Was Killed, If Not By Whom New York Magazine Tupac, Ali and Nixon Walk into a Bar... ign paste Magazine  - Screen Junkies (blog)  - We Got This Covered (blog)
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Wall Street Journal Not every "war poet " was himself a soldier or airman. C. Day Lewis, Mr. Swift notes, viewed himself as heir to the trench poets of World War I, ...
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... Examiner.com Jule Strand is a poet and educator who is currently in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Boise State University. Recently I spoke with Julie about her ...

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Sat Aug 21 13:33:56 2010

Which author or poet would you recommend interviewing for a school project?
Q. It's for my advanced creative writing class and I need to find an author or a poet to do a project on where I have to make a presentation on them and then do a piece of work that mirrors their style. I need to interview my author to find out more about them. Sharon Creech doesn't have any direct contact information. So, I'd need someone else. But I do love Creech's work though. I own the book Absolutely Normal Chaos, and I've read it many times.
Asked by Lisa - Thu Mar 20 17:42:03 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. sharon chreech she wrote the book Walk two moons
Answered by Sam - Thu Mar 20 17:52:47 2008

What kind of poet was Paulo Neruda, and were there others like him?
Q. I'm doing a project on Chilean poet Paulo Neruda, and just wondered if there's a poetry style to categorize him in (like Romantic, Post-Modernist etc). Also, are there any other poets that were around in the same era, that were similar to Neruda? Were there poets that also wrote politically charged poems, particularly about South America? Thanks
Asked by Simon Magnus - Fri Jun 13 09:59:41 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. He's not really a modernist or a postmodernist. Hes too much interested in the content of his verse, and a modernist or postmodernist is focussed on the manner, with whatever is said being secondary. Or so say I. He writes of love, and he is politically involved--he was a Communist--at the same time. Often it's free verse. The poems are subtle sympathetic, and have a radical, fearless edge to them. The closest poet to him I know about is Cesar Vallejo, the Peruvian--although he seems more avant garde and less political than Neruda.
Answered by Roger Lathbury - Fri Jun 13 10:56:15 2008

Does anyone know a famous poet who's poetry is mostly biographical or autobiographical?
Q. I'm trying to find a poet who wrote poems about his/her life or other peoples life. Any suggestions?
Asked by KayBee - Sun Mar 28 13:28:34 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The truth is, they all did, at least that I can think of. Poetry is personal; you write what you feel about what you know. Whitman and Wordsworth loved nature and that is laced through all their work, and it is all very personal. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T.S. Eliot... both wrote about the times they lived in very much. You can find examples in all their works that are about others, as well, so it really just depends on your tastes. The older ones are more obscure in their delivery, so try more modern writers. You want someone very personal, read Pablo Neruda. It doesn't get more autobiographically personal than that. Ranier Maria Rilke is another who wrote constantly about his own love life. Sylvia Plath is another, about all aspects… [cont.]
Answered by cubiedoo - Thu Apr 1 01:04:46 2010

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Wed Aug 18 08:45:09 2010

Quotes on the subjects of Poetry, poems, and poets.

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  • You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
    • John Adams, Letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)
  • To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
  • The crown of literature is poetry.
  • Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
  • Always be a poet, even in prose.
  • All poetry is misrepresentation.
    • Jeremy Bentham, An Aphorism attributed to him according to John Stuart Mill (see Mill's essay On Bentham and Coleridge in Utilitarianism edt. by Mary Warnock p. 123).