What's the difference between orpheus and poet?

Orpheus


Definition:

  • (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
  • (2) By naming a canvas "Bacchus" or "Orpheus" he didn't so much imply a narrative but use the resonance of the name and its residual impact in the viewer's mind to give an extra depth.
  • (3) When the railway workers cut through into the Roman villa, a junior engineer, Thomas Marsh, made beautiful, precise plans and illustrations of the remains, and the splendid Orpheus mosaic, in a more or less pristine state, was set duly into the wall of Keynsham station.
  • (4) For services to the Retail Industry and voluntary service particularly through the Orpheus Foundation.
  • (5) In Ovid's story abut Orpheus, the singer-poet ends up being torn limb from limb, broken apart by angry maenads.
  • (6) PR Photograph: PR Of course Duke and Ocean are a strange construct – an oatmeal Orpheus and Eurydice for the exercise-obsessed yuppie class – but then Lululemon is a strange concept.
  • (7) Myth has a role, too: the stories of Persephone and Orpheus, who traveled to the underworld.
  • (8) Soon after leaving for Nigeria in 1957, he joined the University of Ibadan, where he not only made friends with such rising literary talent as Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, but helped launch two literary magazines, one of which was the celebrated Black Orpheus.
  • (9) The operas Herbert designed included Gluck's Orpheus And Euridice (Sadler's Wells, 1967), Verdi's La Forza del Destino (Paris Opera, 1977), Kurt Weill and Brecht's The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny and Mozart's Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (both at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1979) and Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask Of Orpheus (London Coliseum, 1986).

Poet


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
  • (4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
  • (6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
  • (9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
  • (10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
  • (11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
  • (12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
  • (13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
  • (14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
  • (15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
  • (16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
  • (17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
  • (18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
  • (19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
  • (20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.

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