Poetry, All About Poetry

Narrative poetry And the poet a narrator in verse, Lyrical poetry And the poet a singer of the heart, Metaphysical poetry And the poet as a metaphysician, Satiric poetry And the poet as a satirist, Romantic poetry And the poet as a romantic, Victorian poetry And the poet as a Victorian, Modern poetry And the poet as a modern man, Ultra-modern, post-modern and modernist. The poet as a classicist And poetry as classicism, An exercise in morality and didacticism, The poet as a thinker And poetry as dispersed meditations, An exercise in maxims, proverbs and sayings, The poet as a musician A maker of music, The poet as singer Singing the songs of life, The poet as a painter Painting the images of life, The poet as a photographer Photographing As for the album and his collection. The poet as a landscapist Landscaping the domains, Hills, dales and vales, The poet as an imagist Taking refuge in imagery and imagism And word-plays, The poet verbose and wordy Using bombastic words, Old, dead and archaic, Latinized and patched up, The poet as an urban fellow Dealing with urban life and culture, The poet dealing country life and manners Countrified and pastoral, The poet after marking tornadoes and floods Turning eco-centric, Voicing the concerns for ecology and environment.