what makes u a true poet ?

Question

what is poetry indeed? can somebody define it? does it have boundaries? whats that "thing" that makes u "true" poet? (please do not say any stupid things... think before you write ) or for that matter a "true" writer ?

Answer 1

poetry is singing with feeling. it does not have boundaries since to be human is to be able to sing as well. all of us are poets to some extent. we are all able to cry, laugh, love and express our feelings. But some people know how to express these feelings more profoundly than others. Some know better how to express them in words and other symbols. Hence the diversity of poets and poetry. The bottom line is that being humans endowed with feelings and the means to express or convey them in symbols, we are all poets. There's no mystery about poetry, no hidden "thing", no true poets except the degree of expressiveness. "True" is a misnomer here, for in the final analysis, we are also capable of telling stories, reflecting our positions, feelings and all else in symbols and figures of speech. Hence, again, anybody can be a writer unless "true" means something else.
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Answer 2

My main criteria for being a writer (of poetry or prose) is that your work has something to say. Your images must be concrete and precise. You must ellicit an emotional response of some kind from your reader. YOUR WRITING MUST HAVE A POINT. Prose must have a starting point, rising action, denouement, climax, change, and closure (and I don't mean everything tied up in a pretty ribbon, just that it feels like that particular part of a person's life has been changed in a comprehensive way). Poetry must start at the beginning, change in the middle and end at the ending. The assonance, consonance, rhyming, and rhythm must coincide (a poem about happiness - that should never have the word "happy" or any syllable of it included in the text - won't work with a sluggish rhythm).
If your writing does not satisfy this (rigid as it may seem), you are going to let your reader down and readers like me will growl at you for it.

Answer 3

I really don't believe there are any "rules" for being a writer and a poet. If you love to write stories or poetry, then you are a writer. There are no rules.

The only important thing is to try to get your punctuation, grammar and spelling correct. But you could always use a beta reader to read your stuff and help you correct your grammatical errors.

If you feel you are a writer, then you ARE one, hunny!

Cheers

Answer 4

a real poet is somebody that writes a pair of subject remember they are obsessed with and evoke thoughts in readers that they did no longer understand approximately. They write with such emotion and imagery that the reader is moved and left breathless. a real poet speaks from the guts and soul and can take any subject remember and talk the fact approximately it. they carry exchange realities the place the readers can get away to and return a replaced man or woman. a real poet writes no longer because of the fact of acceptance or fortune yet because of the fact they must launch their soul of thoughts and strategies. a real poet is born with the present to take something and placed it into perfect words and describe any concern. that's what i think of a real poet is.

Answer 5

A true poet writ from there heart and soul, the only real boundaries is the people who you let read your poem.

Answer 6

To be a good poet,
first you must know it.
To be truly sublime,
you first must rhyme.

Speak from the heart,
not from the ***,
smoke a fat joint,
lay down on the grass.

Be cautious when sitting,
spiders lurk about,
they might poke up and bite you,
and "bloody hell" you will shout.

You will stomp your feet,
throw a fit.
Kick that spiders ***,
I knew you could do it!

Now back to my poem,
he's sitting alone,
he cant stop rhyming,
this impossible timing,
the high is climbing!
my eyes are winding!

Kill this poem!
He's all alone!
Go grab the gun,
lets have some fun!

Rip in half this bloody script,
ink will poor as his body's ripped.
black blue stains all over the floor,
dead is my poem, I will write no more.

Answer 7

poetry is nature,poetry is natural,poet is not imagine it but create it in its own way,but poetry needed attention,alteration, attraction,without the limitation or beyond limitations.poem has the power to make people laugh,awareness.it is easy to wake up sleeping person.but very difficult to give wake up call to those who are already awaken.only poet make it possible

Answer 8

Being able to present original thoughts without cliched or plagarised ideas might help.

Answer 9

More ideas expressed with less words.