Poetaster vs. Poet — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Poetaster and Poet
Definitions
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)
