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单词 poet
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Definition of poet in English:

poet

noun ˈpəʊɪtˈpoʊət
  • 1A person who writes poems.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They play a significant and neglected part in the way poets write and readers read.
    • The radio play became an art form in its own right and attracted novelists and poets as well as dramatists.
    • Few poets write more than a handful of great poems, which is why the same ones keep cropping up.
    • The poet is trying to write a poem but he does not know what he is trying to say until he has said it and recognised it.
    • The two are linked by Heinrich Heine, the German poet whose writing spawned them.
    • Again the essays by poets confirm this endless struggle to complete a poem.
    • Arab poets wrote better romantic poetry than Rimbaud and Verlaine as long ago as the tenth century.
    • Picturing the unknown, they acted like novelists or poets, inviting readers to imagine hidden worlds.
    • I'm tempted to say that we have a good number of poets who can write but cannot read.
    • It is in order to write that so many poets have tried to live the reveries of opium.
    • A collection of poems by Indian poets has just been translated and published in Taiwan.
    • Wordsworth has been transformed by literary theory from a poet of nature to a key figure of modernity.
    • The failed poet writes short stories, and the failed short story writer writes novels.
    • It's an observed phenomenon that some poets go on writing wonderful poems right into a really advanced age.
    • Some were written by well-known romantic poets in the nineteenth century.
    • The Index reveals an alternative literary canon of the poets most widely read in printed miscellanies.
    • Novelists, poets and playwrights all see such biographers as parasites.
    • Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Yeats did it.
    • The cumulative effect of these descent scenes is to establish Spenser as the poet of initiations.
    • During the nineteenth century almost all poets wrote poetry in dramatic form.
    Synonyms
    verse writer, versifier, verse-maker, rhymester, rhymer, sonneteer, lyricist, lyrist, elegist
    laureate
    literary bard, swan
    derogatory poetaster
    historical troubadour, balladeer
    archaic rhymist
    rare metricist, ballad-monger, idyllist, Parnassian, poeticule
    1. 1.1 A person possessing special powers of imagination or expression.
      he is more poet than academic because of his gift for language
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The story of this disaster was developed by the imagination of numerous poets.
      • And those who translate such works into English today tend to be academics rather than poets.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs 'maker, poet', from poiein 'create'.

  • A poet is literally ‘a maker’, a term that was also used to mean a poet in the Middle Ages, coming from Greek poētēs, ‘maker, poet’. When someone experiences a fitting or deserved retribution for their actions, you can say that it is poetic justice. Alexander Pope used the phrase in his satire The Dunciad (1742), where he depicts ‘Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale’. See also laurel

 
 

Definition of poet in US English:

poet

nounˈpoʊətˈpōət
  • 1A person who writes poems.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The two are linked by Heinrich Heine, the German poet whose writing spawned them.
    • Novelists, poets and playwrights all see such biographers as parasites.
    • It is in order to write that so many poets have tried to live the reveries of opium.
    • The Index reveals an alternative literary canon of the poets most widely read in printed miscellanies.
    • Picturing the unknown, they acted like novelists or poets, inviting readers to imagine hidden worlds.
    • Wordsworth has been transformed by literary theory from a poet of nature to a key figure of modernity.
    • Some were written by well-known romantic poets in the nineteenth century.
    • It's an observed phenomenon that some poets go on writing wonderful poems right into a really advanced age.
    • Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Yeats did it.
    • The radio play became an art form in its own right and attracted novelists and poets as well as dramatists.
    • During the nineteenth century almost all poets wrote poetry in dramatic form.
    • Few poets write more than a handful of great poems, which is why the same ones keep cropping up.
    • They play a significant and neglected part in the way poets write and readers read.
    • I'm tempted to say that we have a good number of poets who can write but cannot read.
    • Again the essays by poets confirm this endless struggle to complete a poem.
    • A collection of poems by Indian poets has just been translated and published in Taiwan.
    • The failed poet writes short stories, and the failed short story writer writes novels.
    • The poet is trying to write a poem but he does not know what he is trying to say until he has said it and recognised it.
    • Arab poets wrote better romantic poetry than Rimbaud and Verlaine as long ago as the tenth century.
    • The cumulative effect of these descent scenes is to establish Spenser as the poet of initiations.
    Synonyms
    verse writer, versifier, verse-maker, rhymester, rhymer, sonneteer, lyricist, lyrist, elegist
    1. 1.1 A person possessing special powers of imagination or expression.
      he is more poet than academic because of his gift for language
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And those who translate such works into English today tend to be academics rather than poets.
      • The story of this disaster was developed by the imagination of numerous poets.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’.

 
 
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