A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Although poets have been around for quite some time, poets don't get as much recognition as an author or a ...
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A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Although poets have been around for quite some time, poets don't get as much recognition as an author or a writer. The unknown poet or poets of the epic poem The Epic of Gilgamesh is the creator of what many scholars believe is the oldest surviving work of poetry. Religious texts such as the Torah contain early poems such as the prologue to Book of Job, and mythological texts such as Homer's The Odyssey existed in the Ancient Greek language as early as 750 BC. In Chinese culture, the earliest collection of poems is the Shijing, a collection of 305 poems by various authors thought to have been written as early as 1000 BC. Throughout each...
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