Authors of poetry are called poets.
A poet , also known as a vate or bard , is an individual who is dedicated to creating poetry . A poem , for its part, is a literary composition developed in verse that can also be called a poem .
Poets, therefore, are writers who turn to works in verse . When the person who writes poetry is a woman , she can be classified as a poet . For example: "The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is my favorite writer" , "Although I wrote several poems, I do not consider myself a poet" , "There are few people who become millionaires by becoming poets" , "My daughter is a poet" .
famous poets
Poets have existed since ancient times: in fact, poetry is usually associated with oral stories . Poetic composition, however, changed a lot with the advancement of history and today the notion of poet encompasses very diverse authors, whose texts have few points in common.
The Greek Homer (who lived in the 8th century BC), the Italian Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), the Spanish Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), the Spanish Gloria Fuertes (1917-1998), the English William Shakespeare (1564 -1616), the German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German Herta Müller (born 1953), the American Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the French Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), the Argentine Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) and the Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) are just some of the most important poets in history, who managed to transcend borders and conquer readers from all over the planet.
The British William Shakespeare is one of the most recognized poets in history.
The question of quality
As is often the case with any artistic discipline, there is no specific criterion that allows one to define a person as a poet. There are those who consider that poets are those who write verses of a certain quality; Others qualify as poets those who manage to publish books of poetry and there are also those who call anyone who writes poetry a poet, even when they do not publish it.
In the same way, there are those who consider that one is born a poet , as well as a writer or artist in general, since it is not something that can be learned but rather a talent that must be developed. Each point of view can be valid, since they are opinions; It should be noted that among poets there are also different opinions about this same topic.
A good poet has the particular ability to use language as if it were a color palette with which he can create images that people in other fields could never imagine; This does not mean that poetry is necessarily beautiful , at least not as this term is conventionally understood, but that it takes advantage of words in infinite ways, renews them, gives them a life and color that they had never had and puts them at the service of art. .
Poets versus novelists
Unfortunately, the figure of the poet does not receive the same respect as that of the novelist, for example, nor does he usually obtain the same economic benefits for his work. Thanks to bad information, many people tend to think that it does not cost work or effort to write poetry, that it is born from a moment of inspiration that is not followed by any type of revision or rewriting process. While this may be true in some cases, poetry also requires intense dedication.
This perception of poetry turns the poet into a lazy and uncommitted being who, unlike the novelist, does not dedicate himself for long months to the creation of his works , but rather puts them on paper in a few minutes and then relaxes to admire them. the sunset Reality is as different as it is flexible: there may be undedicated novelists and poets who never leave their desks, for example.