poets
Writers of stanzas
Poets is the plural of poet—people who write poetry.
The word often carries connotations of heightened sensitivity or artistic temperament: Poets and dreamers rarely make good accountants.
Someone called a poet may write verse professionally, occasionally, or not at all—the label sometimes describes a sensibility rather than an occupation.
Device that measures usage
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- scansionAnalyzing verse rhythm patterns
prosody · iamb · trochee · dactyl · anapest · spondee · caesura · enjambment
Poet of epics
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- lyricistWriter of song texts
- troubadourMedieval Provençal lyric poet
- versifierOne composing metrical lines
wordsmith · minstrel · griot · skald · elegist · balladeer · epigrammatist · librettist
Fourteen-line metered poem
- haikuJapanese seventeen-syllable verse
- limerickComedic five-line poem
- odeLaudatory verse form
- balladNarrative poem or song
epic · elegy · villanelle · sestina · quatrain · couplet · stanza · acrostic
Think deeply about
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
reverie · daydream · contemplation · illumination · awakening · solitude · nature · beauty
Subdued, lasting sadness
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
despair · hope · grief · bliss · serenity · lamentation · yearning · rapture
Black arts explosion, 1920s
meter
Device that measures usage
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
scansion · prosody · iamb · trochee · dactyl · anapest · spondee · caesura · enjambment · strophe
bard
Poet of epics
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- lyricistWriter of song texts
- troubadourMedieval Provençal lyric poet
versifier · wordsmith · minstrel · griot · skald · elegist · balladeer · epigrammatist · librettist · spoken word artist
sonnet
Fourteen-line metered poem
ballad · epic · elegy · villanelle · sestina · quatrain · couplet · stanza · acrostic · pastoral
muse
Think deeply about
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- epiphanySudden profound insight
imagination · reverie · daydream · contemplation · illumination · awakening · solitude · nature · beauty · suffering
melancholy
Subdued, lasting sadness
nostalgia · despair · hope · grief · bliss · serenity · lamentation · yearning · rapture · anguish
Harlem Renaissance
Black arts explosion, 1920s
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- arts worldartists, galleries, museums, studios, painters
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- literary worldauthors, writers, novelists, literary agents, manuscripts
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- 19th Century Figurespoliticians, statesmen, rulers, generals, princes
poetsnovelists
Writers of long-form fiction
essayists · journalists · technical writers · copywriters · fiction writers
poetstechnical writers
Authors of user guides
copywriters · bureaucrats · accountants · lawyers · clerks
poetsphilistines
Uncultured, materialistic people
bean counters · number crunchers · suits · pencil pushers · businessmen
- waxing poeticSpeaking with heightened eloquence
- love poemRomantic literary composition
- nonsense poetryPlayfully meaningless literary form
- narrative poemStory told in verse
- poetic justiceFitting outcome matching misdeeds
- war poetryVerse about armed conflict
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