poet

«poet» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who writes poems — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a poet, poets)

meaning for a pupil

A person who writes poems. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils read poets and learn about rhyme, rhythm and imagery; they may be poets themselves when they write poems. Phrases: a famous poet, poet laureate, I'm a poet and I didn't know it (joking rhyme).

examples

• The poet wrote about the sea and the sky. tree →
• Our class read a poem by a poet from Ireland. tree →
• She wants to be a poet when she grows up. tree →
• The poet read her poems aloud to the school. tree →
• A good poet chooses every word carefully. tree →
• «You're a poet and you didn't know it!» laughed Gran. tree →
• Late in the evening the poet came home. tree →

note

Countable. Related words: poem (the piece of writing), poetry (poems in general, uncountable), poetic (adjective). Poetess is old-fashioned; poet is used for anyone.

In the corpora

• The Mole, who is honest and no poet, says he doesn't think much of it.
• I'd send Rat, if he wasn't a poet.»
• Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «poet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.