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"The poor poet"
A poet is a person who writes poetry. This is usually influenced by a cultural and intellectual tradition. Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, timeless and universal, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular, personal and ephemeral qualities. Other qualities like life problems might also help a poet stand out.
Nearly every language has had a poet, or poets, who have had a tremendous impact in literary history.
In the English language, poets generally considered to be of the most influential include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, May Swenson, and Anne Carson.
The French language boasts the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Comte de Lautreamont, and Paul Valery.
The Russian language can be represented by Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Lermontov, Marina Tsvetayeva and Boris Pasternak.
In the Chinese language there are such literary geniuses as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Li Qingzhao, Qu Yuan, Bei Dao, Xue Tao, Yu Xuanji, Su Xiaoxiao, Lu You, Ouyang Xiu, Mei Yaochen, Gu Cheng, Li He, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Yang Lian, Qiu Jin and Cao Zhi.
The German language carries the great works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Celan.
In the Italian language there is Dante, Ludovico Ariosto, and Giacomo Leopardi.
In the Portuguese Language you can find the masterworks of Bocage, Ces?rio Verde, Florbela Espanca, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Antero de Quental, Fernando Pessoa and Lu?s de Cam?es.
The Spanish language is vibrant with the words of Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Gabriela Mistral, Ernesto Cardenal Mart?nez, Nicanor Parra, Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Borges.
The Greek language has a long line of poets including Homer, Sappho, Pindar, George Seferis, and Cavafy.
The Persian language owns a few of the more popular poets who are still widely read today. These include Rumi, Forough Farrokhzad, Ahmad Shamlou, and Omar Khayyam.
The great modern Polish poets include Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz.
Late shri Harilal Upadhyay was a Gujarati Author and he had also work in the field of poetry also. In fact he have started his career as a poet only and he was known as Haribhai Kavi (Kavi=Poet in Gujarati).
The Urdu language, known for its poetry, carries the beautiful work of Ghalib, Iqbal, Faiz,Irshad Ullah-Khan and others.
In Romanian language Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Labis, George Cosbuc, Ana Blandianaen:Poet
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