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This 5 page paper contemplates the poet's role in society and looks at the works of William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Some poetry is quoted, but the paper focuses on what it means to be a poet and his or her influence on society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to do with real life anyway? Recently, a poet laureate from New Jersey was criticized for an unpopular political stance. Yet, aside from poets who make headlines, poets and their
poems get little attention. Books of poetry sell, but they do not sell as well as novels or nonfiction works that people feel are more substantial. While the poets work
is often discounted in favor of life, or media, or even Hallmark, one has to wonder what, if anything, the poet has to offer. The role of the poet is
a common theme of poets as they try to make sense of what they do. Poets are born, not made, and they have a particular gift or talent that they
are compelled to share with the world. Davis notes: "In Stegers view, many writers of this generation feel free from the earlier necessity to create and further Slovene identity
and ideology and from the role of the poet as seer" (59). While many would not call a poet a seer, the idea should be contemplated along with the idea
that the poet does see life differently form the majority. This is true of many writers and artists who are able to express themselves in ways that the majority could
not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the box. Again, many poets have broached this intriguing subject, and some of these
who have made a compelling point about the poets role are William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Williams in fact dedicated a volume of work to
just that point, which he calls Paterson. In Delineaments of the Giants as found in Paterson, one line is as follows: "Immortal he neither moves nor rouses and is
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