Poet vs. Poem — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Poet and Poem

Definitions

Poet➦

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

Poem➦

A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.

Poet➦

A writer of poems.

Poem➦

A composition in verse rather than in prose

Wrote both prose and poems.

Poet➦

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

"[He] was the bard of the bird feeder, the poet of the small and homey" (Bill McKibben).

Poem➦

A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.

Poet➦

A person who writes poems.

Poem➦

A literary piece written in verse.

Poet➦

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Poem➦

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

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.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.

Poem➦

A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

Poet➦

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

Poem➦

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; - contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.