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