Bard vs. Poet — What's the Difference?

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally bards were a specific lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland.

A poet is a person who creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others.

A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition

A writer of poems.

A rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting.

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

Cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon

A person who writes poems.

One of an ancient Celtic order of minstrel poets who composed and recited verses celebrating the legendary exploits of chieftains and heroes.

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

A poet, especially a lyric poet.

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

A piece of armor used to protect or ornament a horse.

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

To equip (a horse) with bards.

To cover (meat) in thin pieces of bacon or fat to preserve moisture during cooking.

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

(by extension) A poet.

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)

Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

Specifically, Peruvian bark.

To cover a horse in defensive armor.

(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

Specifically, Peruvian bark.

To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A lyric poet

An ornamental caparison for a horse

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