Poet
['pəʊɪt] or ['poət]
Definition
(noun.) a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
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Definition
(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Bard, author of poems.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, {author_of_poems}
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Definition
n. the author of a poem: one skilled in making poetry: one with a strong imagination:—fem. Pō′etess.—ns. Pō′etaster a petty poet: a writer of contemptible verses; Pō′etastry.—adjs. Poet′ic -al pertaining or suitable to a poet or to poetry: expressed in poetry: marked by poetic language: imaginative.—adv. Poet′ically in a poetic manner.—n.sing. Poet′ics the branch of criticism which relates to poetry.—n. Poet′icule a petty poet.—v.i. Pō′etise to write as a poet: to make verses.—ns. Pō′et-lau′reate (see Laureate); Pō′etress (Spens.) a poetess; Pō′etry the art of expressing in melodious words the thoughts which are the creations of feeling and imagination: utterance in song: metrical composition.—Poetic justice ideal administration of reward and punishment; Poetic license a departing from strict fact or rule by a poet for the sake of effect.
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Examples
- His model was a po em by Empedocles on Nature, the grand hexameters of which had fasci nated the Roman poet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Who was the poet who said that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And where did you ever see a stupid, prosing poet, who did feel his own inferiority? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Good-by, my dear lad, said Justinian, as he embraced the brave poet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He has warned us twice, replied Justinian, as he walked out into the court with the poet; once by the earthquake, again by the springs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He thought that if Davy had not been the first chemist he would have been the first poet of the age. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This is Mr. Snodgrass, a friend of Mr. Pickwick's, and a poet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What is it the poet says about a lover seeing Helen's beauty in the brow of Egypt? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Courage, my poet! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Because I am a poet, you necessarily think I am poor, which is a mistake. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Perhaps, replied the poet vaguely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A poet is not apt to envy a philosopher, or a poet of a different kind, of a different nation, or of a different age. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- First, he says that the poet or painter is an imitator, and in the third degree removed from the truth. Plato. The Republic.
- As quickly as possible he ran into the poet's bedroom, and found the weapon on the bed, where the neglectful poet had left it. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is only a hostile average-sensual-man background against which the philosophers and poets stand out. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The popular poets got to work in this fashion: Thou king of satyrs . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The obscurities of early Greek poets arose necessarily out of the state of language and logic which existed in their age. Plato. The Republic.
- He pretended that the greatest poets must, when they first began to write, have committed as many faults as he did. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Plato does not seriously intend to expel poets from life and society. Plato. The Republic.
- What the poets and story-tellers say--that the wicked prosper and the righteous are afflicted, or that justice is another's gain? Plato. The Republic.
- For they are not ignorant of antiquity like the poets, nor are they afraid of their enemies, nor is any madman a friend of theirs. Plato. The Republic.
- The sheiks of the tribes, under a king of the poets, sat in judgment and awarded prizes; the prize songs were sung through all Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Have you any poets, painters, sculptors? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Or, after all, they may be in the right, and poets do really know the things about which they seem to the many to speak so well? Plato. The Republic.
- Nor is it strange that latter-day research should confirm so many sayings of the poets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is what mighty cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their poets and prophets, bear a like testimony. Plato. The Republic.
- To revive the ancient government you must have the ancient patriots, poets, and scholars. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. Plato. The Republic.
- It is only eccentric poets and narrow specialists who lock the doors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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