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At 7:43pm on April 19, 2008, Bronzeage said…: Thank you Ruth.
I am sure there are many types of poet, and many different naming systems exist. The type I poet is the person who writes for themselves, to express their feelings. They seldom review their work or rewrite. Each piece is created as it flows from their mind and remains in that state forever.

A Type II poet writes for an audience. There is an idea, an image, a feeling, or a story to tell and this poet is determined to share it. The technical skills of poetry are studied and mastered, in order to improve the clarity of all the work. Poetry is not a secret code. There is no need to hide the subject in obscure imagery. The poet sees an image, real or imagined and converts it to words the way an impressionist painter uses splotchs of paint to create a landscape. The reader of the poem is like the viewer of the painting. The mind assembles the blotches into a picture the same way it assembles the words into the image the poet saw.

It is a lot of work to write this way, but it is worth the effort.

At 11:40am on April 18, 2008, Ruth Y. Nott said…: Bronzeage, thanks for joining our Christian newsletter blog. I hope that you will feel free to read and post here, comment on our weekly topic and participate in the groups. Rogie has been kind enough to invite many people over from Poet Tree. I really appreciate all she does for creativity online. I've never heard of the "type II poet". What are the other types like?