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Poetaster vs. Poet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Poetaster and Poet

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Poetaster

Poetaster , like rhymester or versifier, is a derogatory term applied to bad or inferior poets. Specifically, poetaster has implications of unwarranted pretensions to artistic value.

Poet

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

Poetaster

A writer of insignificant, meretricious, or shoddy poetry.

Poet

A writer of poems.

Poetaster

An unskilled poet.

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).

Poetaster

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.
The talk of forgotten poetasters.

Poet

A person who writes poems.

Poet

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

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.

Poet

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

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