I saw a YouTube video about 5 levels of singer. From tone deaf to singing god.
I was thinking of five levels of poet.
1) The person who writes a poem but has no concept at all. They just fill a page with their intimate thoughts. This is not necessarily bad, if you don't consider this page in relation to any other concept of poetry.
2) The second level: they fill their pages with their thoughts, but they mistakenly relate this to some concept of poetry in the more exalted sense. This can actually be worse, because the gain in pretentiousness makes the poem worse, rather than better. Yet if there is some concept of a poem as something more, then the poet can develop this later on. A subcategory of this is the versifier, the person who writes with rhyme, but no meter. The doggerel poet. Once again, trying to be poetic will make the poem worse at the lower level.
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